Simonides
Role: poet · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 2
In Book 1, Chapter 2, Simonides journeyed with Æschylus to the court of Hiero in Syracuse. By Book 3, Chapter 8, an earlier poem by Simonides on Pausanias was inscribed on the tripod erected at Delphi.
In Book 6, Chapter 9, Philo is identified as Simonides’ son and as the son of Leoprepes; Philo wrote an elegiac couplet.
Relationship record
Book 1 · Chapter 2
- patron: Hiero (court of Syracuse) “Æschylus and Simonides journeyed to Syracuse to the court of Hiero”
Book 3 · Chapter 8
- with Pausanias (Simonides composed an epigram on Pausanias.) “and still earlier one on Pausanias, composed by Simonides, inscribed on the tripod erected at Delphi”
Book 6 · Chapter 9
- parent: Leoprepes “Philo Simonides, the son of Leoprepes, wrote the very apt elegiac couplet”
- with Philo (Simonides wrote an elegiac couplet about Philo.) “On this Philo Simonides, the son of Leoprepes, wrote the very apt elegiac couplet”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.