← SimonidesDirgesby SimonidesElegiac verses mourning death commemorating important persons with pathosFind on Amazon↗About the authorSimonidesGreek lyric poet celebrated for his epinician odes, dirges, and epigrams. His epitaph for the Spartan dead at Thermopylae (Go tell the Spartans) is one of the most celebrated inscriptions in history.More by SimonidesEpinician OdesVictory odes celebrating athletic achievements with mythological and moral themes→EpigramsCollection of ancient Greek epigrams attributed to the classical poet→FragmentsSurviving poetic fragments from the ancient lyric poet→