On the shores of the Nile, Phocylides of Miletus and Hipponax of Ephesus would never have dared to sing their libels on women, nor could the fable of Pandora have been possibly invented here!" [Simonides of Amorgos, an Iambic poet, who delighted in writing satirical verses on women.

He divides them into different classes, which he compares to unclean animals, and considers that the only woman worthy of a husband and able to make him happy must be like the bee.

The well-known fable of Pandora owes its origin to Simonides.

He lived about 650 B.C.The Egyptians too, speak very severely of bad women, comparing them quite in the Simonides style to beasts of prey (hyenas, lions and panthers).

We find this sentence on a vicious woman: She is a collection of every kind of meanness, and a bag full of wiles.