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Semonides
Greek iambic poet (fl. c. 650 B.C.) whose description of women as the offspring of animals is a monument to misogyny.
Semonides
Semonides was an iambic poet not to be confused with the lyric poet Simonides.
Semonides' Ten Female Phyla
A list of the ten animals Semonides used to characterize women.
Semonides
John Porter's class notes on Semonides explain that Semonides, a second rate poet, known for his "flat-footed misogynistic diatribe that nonetheless tells us a great deal about the Greek view of women."