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Aischylos
- (Aeschylus) 525(Eleusis)-455 BC, playwright
Anakreon - poet of Teos (Asia Minor) then Samos
Aristogeiton - with Harmodious, murderer of Hipparchos
Bacchylides - Simonides' nephew, lyric poet
Darius - successor to Kyros, ruler of Persia
Dorothea - Simonides' housemate at
Euboea
Harmodios - with Aristogeiton, murderer of Hipparchos
Hieron - (Hiero I) tyrant of Syracuse, Sicily, patron of
Simonides
Hipparchos
- Pisistratos' 2nd son, Athens co-ruler 527-14, exiled 511
Hippias
- Pisistratos' eldest son, Athens 527-14, killed 514
Ibykos - (Ibycus) 6th century poet
Lasos - poet of Athens, discoverer of Onomakritos' forgery
Kimon - a triple Olympic victor (chariot)
Kleobis - poet, teacher of Simonides
Kyros
- 600-529, (Cyrus the Great) King of Persia (550), then Asia
Leoprepes - father of Simonides
Onomakritos - Athenian poet, forger of oracles
Philomache - sister of Simonides
Pisistratos
- d 527, tyrant of Athens, catamite to Solon?
Polykrates
- tyrant of Samos (535), commanded pirate fleet, crucified Lydia 522
Pythagoras
- philosopher of Samos, Krotonos (Italy) 530
Simonides
Solon
- 638-559, lawgiver of Athens
Theasides - older brother of Simonides
Theodoros
- sculptor; with Rhoikos, built Samos' Hera temple
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