西莫尼德斯（英语：Simonides of Ceos），（前556年－前468年）。古希腊科奥斯的抒情诗人之一，他是诗人巴库利德斯的叔父。作为诗人，他的创作遍及希腊：他曾在雅典希帕尔库斯的宫廷，在色萨利（公元前514年），在雅典（公元前490年），在叙拉古希埃隆一世的宫廷（公元前476年直至去世）。他创作有赞美诗，警句诗和挽歌等，但以挽歌和哀悼死者的警句诗着称（几乎均为墓碑以及墓志铭等）。他为在马拉松战役中死去的雅典人题写的墓志铭，较为埃斯库罗斯更出名。他曾在酒歌比赛中56次获胜。他的诗歌现已大部分失传。

For the elegiac poet, see Semonides of Amorgos.

Simonides of Ceos (/saɪˈmɒnɪˌdiːz/; Greek: Σιμωνίδης ὁ Κεῖος; c. 556 – 468 BC) was a Greek lyric poet, born at Ioulis on Ceos. The scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria included him in the canonical list of nine lyric poets, along with Bacchylides (his nephew) and Pindar (reputedly a bitter rival). Both Bacchylides and Pindar benefited from his innovative approach to lyric poetry and he was more involved than either of them in the major events and personalities of their times. His fame owes much to traditional accounts of his colourful life, as one of the wisest of men, as a greedy miser, as an inventor of a system of mnemonics and also of some letters of the Greek alphabet (ω, η, ξ, ψ). Such accounts include fanciful elements yet he had a real influence on the sophistic enlightenment of the classical era. His fame as a poet rests largely on his ability to present basic human situations with affecting simplicity. In the words of the Roman rhetorician Quintilian: