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Simonides's epitaphs and victory odes, including the epigram honoring the Spartan dead at Thermopylae, made him the era's preeminent commemorative poet, paid to turn recent battles into permanent public memory.
Simonides's epitaphs and victory odes, including the epigram honoring the Spartan dead at Thermopylae, made him the era's preeminent commemorative poet, paid to turn recent battles into permanent public memory.
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