The Podium: Since You Are Mortal

Allen comments on Since You Are Mortal, a short poem written by Simonides for about 2, 500 years ago. He says that Simonides is restating what Athenian legislator Solon once said that no man is happy before his death.

Bibliographic Details

Published in:	The American scholar 2004-10, Vol.73 (4), p.184-184
Main Author:	ALLEN, DANIELLE S.
Format:	Magazinearticle
Language:	English
Subjects:	Literary criticism Mortality Poetry Simonides of Ceos (556?-468? BC)
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