Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Ancient Greek educators, Greek educationists, Greek schoolteachers, Libanius, Simonides of Ceos, Callimachus, Posidonius, Zenobius, Crates of Thebes, Constantine Lascaris, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Xenocrates, Philitas of Cos, Demetrios Chalkokondyles, Theodorus Gaza, Jannis Kallinikos, Euclid of Megara, Antiochus of Ascalon, Andreas Kalvos, Konstantinos Tsatsos, Athanasios Psalidas, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Apostolos Doxiadis, Syrianus, Alexander Polyhistor, Pantaenus, Prohaeresius, Zenodotus, Ioannis Psycharis, Moisis Michail Bourlas, Adamantios Androutsopoulos, Demetrios Galanis, John Mauropous, Apostol M rg rit, Annita Pania, Georgius Choeroboscus, Michael Critobulus, Nikephoros Blemmydes, Marianna Zorba, Apsines, Marcus Musurus, Demetrios Pieridis, Anyte of Tegea, Spyridon Stais, Anastasios Michail, Sevastos Kyminitis, Thanasis Costakis, Soteria Aliberty, Polus, Filippos Margaritis, Konstantinos Kallokratos, Sevastos Leontiadis, Andronikos Kallistos, Kallinikos Manios, Manolis Triantaphyllidis, Georgios Sakellarios, Georgios Parakeimenos. Excerpt: Simonides of Ceos (Ancient Greek: ) (c. 556 BC-468 BC) was a Greek lyric poet, born at Ioulis on Kea. The scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria included him in the canonical list of nine lyric poets, along with Bacchylides (his nephew) and Pindar (reputedly a bitter rival). Both Bacchylides and Pindar benefited from his innovative approach to lyric poetry and he was more involved than either of them in the major events and personalities of their times. His fame owes much to traditional accounts of his colourful life, as one of the wisest of men, as a greedy miser, as an inventor of a system of mnemonics and also of some letters of the Greek alphabet ( ). Such accounts include fanciful elements yet he had a real influence on the sophistic enlightenment of ...