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1. ( 13.) Simon was an Athenian, but we do not know exactly when he lived and wrote. The story of his criticism of Micon's picture (see p. 85) sets the earliest limit (Micon was a contemporary of Polygnotus, who was in Athens about 460 ), and Xenophon's mention of him the latest. Various theories have been propounded, such as W. Helbig's, who thought (A. Z. 1861, p. 180) that he was the Simon mentioned in Aristophanes (Knights, 242), and that he was Hipparch in 424 ; and Gerhard's, who recognized him in the figure of a charioteer inscribed with his name on a vase (Auserlesene Vasenbilder, iv, taf. 249). But the earliest known Greek prose which has survived is the tract on the Athenian State, written between 424 and 413 ; and the fragment of Simon's work (see p. 107) bears no evidence of