Download or read book Simonides: Epigrams and Elegies written by DAVID. SIDER and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition and commentary covers, for the most part, those poems by Simonides written in elegiac distichs now called epigrams and elegies. Each poem and fragment is accompanied by a detailed commentary and translation, where applicable, while a comprehensive general Introduction sets Simonides and his works into their historical context.