Simonides
556–468 a. C.
Greece (Ceos), c. 556–468 BC. One of the great lyric poets of antiquity, a master of the epigram and the dirge; his is the most famous epitaph in history, for the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae. His work is in the public domain.
- Ὦ ξεῖν', ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις (s. V a. C.)