A poem by this author observes that "the noise of the purple roiling sea / surrounds and holds me fast.
A poem by this author observes that "the noise of the purple roiling sea / surrounds and holds me fast." This author wrote that "poetry is a speaking picture, painting a silent poetry," a phrase that inspired Horace's maxim Ut pictura poesis. After the nobleman Scopas stiffed him for writing a victory ode filled with too many references to Castor and Pollux, this poet was supposedly saved by the mythological pair when Scopas's dining hall burned down; he later identified the bodies from the wreckage by (*) reconstructing their seating arrangement around the dining table using the first-ever example of a "memory palace." This inventor of the letters omega, xi, psi, and nu wrote: "Tell them in Lacedaimon, passer-by / That here, obedient to their word, we lie," in his epitaph engraved at the battleground of Thermopylae. For 10 points, name this bitter rival of Pindar, an ancient Greek lyric poet from the island of Ceos.
A poem by this author observes that "the noise of the purple roiling sea / surrounds and holds me fast.
Simonides of Ceos