Simonides of Ceos
555 BC–468 BC
Greek lyric poet (c. 556–468 BC)
writer · poet · elegist
Born in Iulis
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Simonides of Ceos:
- Confucius (550 BC–478 BC)
- Sophocles (495 BC–405 BC)
- Laozi (579 BC–500 BC)
- Pythagoras (582 BC–490 BC)
- Herodotus (483 BC–424 BC)
- Sun Tzu (543 BC–495 BC)
- Aeschylus (524 BC–455 BC)
- Cyrus the Great (599 BC–529 BC)