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Semonides

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Semonides (or Simonides) (lived 7th century BC)

Greek poet. Born at Samos, he founded a colony on the island of Amorgos. What little of his work survives includes a satirical poem extending the misogyny of Hesiod's myth of Pandora, and a reflection on the unhappy life of men.


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