a patron of the arts. His rivalry there with another chorus-trainer and poet, Lasus of Hermione, became something of a joke to Athenians of a later generation--it is mentioned briefly by the comic playwright Aristophanes who earmarked Simonides as a miserly type of professional poet (see The Miser below)

Middle career: Thessaly

After the assassination of Hipparchus (514 BC), Simonides withdrew to Thessaly,

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