Ion of Chios

Greek poet

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In biography: Antiquity
…century bce with the poet Ion of Chios, who wrote brief sketches of such famous contemporaries as Pericles and Sophocles. It continued throughout the classical period for a thousand years, until the dissolution of the Roman Empire in the 5th century ce. Broadly speaking, the first half of this period…
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