Simonides of Amorgos
Simonides of Amorgos (fl. 7th century B.C.), Greek poet, born in Samos, one of the founders of a Samian colony on the island of Amorgos. He composed elegiac and iambic poetry, ranking as the second, both in time and reputation, of the three principal iambic poets of the early period of Greek literature, the other two being Archilochus and Hipponax. His longest extant poem, about 100 verses written in iambics, is a satire on the female sex in which women are descended from various animals, such as the pig, fox, dog, horse, and ape, but the only decent women are those derived from bees.
