Theatre and Poetry
- In Canto XIX of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, Simon is in the third ditch of the eighth circle of the Inferno (Hell).
- Simon and Helen appear in Christus: A Mystery and Helen of Tyre by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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