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Pindar (c. 518-438 BCE), highly esteemed as lyric poet by the ancients, commemorates in complex verse the achievements of athletes and powerful rulers at the four great Panhellenic festivals, Olympic, Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian games, against a backdrop of divine favor, human failure, heroic lege...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pindar
Other Authors: Race, William H., 1943-
Format: Book
Language:English
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Language Notes:Greek and English translation on facing pages.
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
Series:Loeb classical library ; 56, 485.
Subjects:
Pindar > Translations into English.
Pindar.
Pindar, > 522 or 518-438 B.C. > Translations into English.
Laudatory poetry, Greek > Translations into English.
Olympic games (Ancient) > Poetry.
Athletics > Greece > Poetry.
Games > Greece > Poetry.
Odes, Greek.
Athletics.
Games.
Laudatory poetry, Greek.
Olympic games (Ancient)
Greece.
Poetry.
Translations.
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Summary:Pindar (c. 518-438 BCE), highly esteemed as lyric poet by the ancients, commemorates in complex verse the achievements of athletes and powerful rulers at the four great Panhellenic festivals, Olympic, Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian games, against a backdrop of divine favor, human failure, heroic legend, and aristocratic Greek ethos.
Physical Description:2 volumes : maps ; 17 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0674995643
9780674995642
0674995341
9780674995345
9780674990623
0674990625