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: ''For other persons with the same name, see Simmias (disambiguation)'' Simmias of Rhodes (), was a Greek poet and grammarian of the Alexandrian school, which flourished under the early Ptolemies. He was earlier than the tragic poet Philiscus of Corcyra, whose time is about 300 BC, at least if we accept the assertion of Hephaestion (p. 31), that the choriambic hexameter, of which Philiscus claimed the invention, had been previously used by Simmias. The 10th-century encyclopaedia, the ''Suda'', reports that Simmias wrote three books of ''Glossai'' (collections of obscure words) and four books of miscellaneous poems (, ''poiemata diaphora''); the latter part of the article in the ''Suda'' is obviously misplaced, and belongs to the life of Semonides of Amorgos. Of his grammatical works nothing more is known; but his poems are frequently referred to, and some of them seem to have been, epic. His ''Gorgo'' is quoted by Athenaeus (xi. p. 491); his ''Months'' and ''Apollon'' by Stephanus Byzantinus and a fragment of thirteen lines from the latter poem is preserved by Tzetzes (Chil. vii. 144), and has been edited by Brunck. As an epigrammatist, Simmias had a place in the Garland of Meleager, and the Greek Anthology contains six epigrams ascribed to him, besides three short poems of that fantastic species called carmina figurata, that is, pieces in which the lines are so arranged as to make the whole poem resemble the form of some object; those of Simmias are entitled, from their forms, the ''Pteryges'' (''Wings''), the ''Oon'' (''Egg''), and the ''Pelekys'' (''Hatchet''). (There are several other poems of the same species in the ''Anthology'', such as the ''Syringes'' (''Pan Pipes''), attributed to Theocritus, the ''Altar'' of Dosiadas, and the ''Egg'' and ''Hatchet'' of Besantinus.) ==References== * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Simmias of Rhodes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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