Theognis of Megara, a famous Greek elegiac poet, flourished in the latter half of the sixth century B.C. Over one thousand of his verses have come down to our time.
With the exception of Heraclitus, Parmenides is the greatest of the pre-Socratic Greek thinkers.
—Parmenides.
Parmenides, a celebrated Greek philosopher of the fifth century B.C., was born at Elea in Southern Italy. He wrote one famous work on philosophy entitled: “On Nature.” It was divided into three sections, “Proem,” “Truth,” and “Opinion,” but only fragments of this work have come down to our time.
A lip like Persuasion’s calling on us to kiss it.
—Anacreon.
Anacreon, a famous lyric poet, of Greece, was born at Teos, in Ionia, 562 (?) B.C., and died 477 B.C. A few of his authentic compositions have come down to our times.
We count it death to falter, not to die.
Jacobs I. 63, 20,—Simonides.
Simonides, a renowned Greek lyric poet, was born in the Island of Ceos about 556 B.C., and died about 468 B.C. Some of his famous “Epigrams,” have come down to our times.