 He composed longer pieces on a Persian War theme, including "Dirge for the Fallen at Thermopylae", "Battle at Artemisium" and "Battle at Salamis" but their genres are not clear from the fragmentary remains - the first was labelled by Diodorus Siculus as an "encomium" but it was probably a hymn and the second was characterized in the Suda as elegiac yet Priscian, in a comment on prosody, indicated that it was composed in lyric meter.Substantial fragments of a recently discovered poem, describing the run-up to the Battle of Plataea and comparing Pausanias to Achilles, show that he actually did compose narrative accounts in elegiac meter.Simonides also wrote "Paeans" and "Prayers/Curses" () and possibly in some genres where no record of his work survives.