Semonides (or Semontoes) of Amorgos was an ancient Greek iambic poet who flourished in the middle of the 7th century BC. He was a native of Samos, and derived his surname from having founded a colony in the neighbouring island of Amorgos. According to the Suda, besides two books of iambics, he wrote elegies, one of them a poem on the early history of the Samians. The elegy included in the fragments (85) of Simonides of Ceos's more probably by Semonides of Amorgos. We possess about thirty fragmen… (More on Semonides)