Pindar
Chronological order
Modern editors (e.g., Snell and Maehler in their Teubner edition), have assigned dates, securely or tentatively, to Pindar's victory odes, based on ancient sources and other grounds.

Pindar

Section Title: Chronological order
Table Section Text: Modern editors (e.g., Snell and Maehler in their Teubner edition), have assigned dates, securely or tentatively, to Pindar's victory odes, based on ancient sources and other grounds.

Date BC	Ode	Victor	Event	Focusing Myth

498	Pythian 10	Hippocles of Thessaly	Boy's long foot-race	Perseus, Hyperboreans

490	Pythian 6 (M)	Xenocrates of Acragas	Chariot-race	Antilochus, Nestor

490	Pythian 12 (M)	Midas of Acragas	Flute-Playing	Perseus, Medusa

488 (?)	Olympian 14 (M)	Asopichus of Orchomenus	Boys' foot-race	None

486	Pythian 7	Megacles of Athens	Chariot-race	None

485 (?)	Nemean 2 (M)	Timodemus of Acharnae	Pancration	None

485 (?)	Nemean 7	Sogenes of Aegina	Boys' Pentathlon	Neoptolemus

483 (?)	Nemean 5	Pythias of Aegina	Youth's Pancration	Peleus, Hippolyta, Thetis

480	Isthmian 6	Phylacides of Aegina	Pancration	Heracles, Telamon

478 (?)	Isthmian 5	Phylacides of Aegina	Pancration	Aeacids, Achilles

478	Isthmian 8 (M)	Cleandrus of Aegina	Pancration	Zeus, Poseidon, Thetis

476	Olympian 1	Hieron of Syracuse	Horse-race	Pelops

476	Olympians 2 & 3	Theron of Acragas	Chariot-race	2.Isles of the Blessed 3.Heracles, Hyperboreans

476	Olympian 11	Agesidamus of Epizephyrian Locris	Boys' Boxing Match	Heracles, founding of Olympian Games

476 (?)	Nemean 1	Chromius of Aetna	Chariot-race	Infant Heracles

475 (?)	Pythian 2	Hieron of Syracuse	Chariot-race	Ixion

475 (?)	Nemean 3	Aristocleides of Aegina	Pancration	Aeacides, Achilles

474 (?)	Olympian 10	Agesidamus of Epizephyrian Locris	Boys' Boxing Match	None

474 (?)	Pythian 3	Hieron of Syracuse	Horse-race	Asclepius

474	Pythian 9	Telesicrates of Cyrene	Foot-race in armour	Apollo, Cyrene

474	Pythian 11	Thrasydaeus of Thebes	Boys' short foot-race	Orestes, Clytemnestra

474 (?)	Nemean 9 (M)	Chromius of Aetna	Chariot-race	Seven Against Thebes

474/3 (?)	Isthmian 3 & 4	Melissus of Thebes	Chariot race & pancration	3.None 4.Heracles, Antaeus

473 (?)	Nemean 4 (M)	Timisarchus of Aegina	Boys' Wrestling Match	Aeacids, Peleus, Thetis

470	Pythian 1	Hieron of Aetna	Chariot-race	Typhon

470 (?)	Isthmian 2	Xenocrates of Acragas	Chariot-race	None

468	Olympian 6	Agesias of Syracuse	Chariot-race with mules	Iamus

466	Olympian 9	Epharmus of Opous	Wrestling-Match	Deucalion, Pyrrha

466	Olympian 12	Ergoteles of Himera	Long foot-race	Fortune

465 (?)	Nemean 6	Alcimidas of Aegina	Boys' Wrestling Match	Aeacides, Achilles, Memnon

464	Olympian 7	Diagoras of Rhodes	Boxing-Match	Tlepolemus

464	Olympian 13	Xenophon of Corinth	Short foot-race & pentathlon	Bellerophon, Pegasus

462/1	Pythian 4 & 5	Arcesilas of Cyrene	Chariot-race	4.Argonauts 5.Battus

460	Olympian 8	Alcimidas of Aegina	Boys' Wrestling-Match	Aeacus, Troy

459 (?)	Nemean 8	Deinis of Aegina	Foot-race	Ajax

458 (?)	Isthmian 1	Herodotus of Thebes	Chariot-race	Castor, Iolaus

460 or 456 (?)	Olympian 4 & 5	Psaumis of Camarina	Chariot-race with mules	4.Erginus 5.None

454 (?)	Isthmian 7	Strepsiades of Thebes	Pancration	None

446	Pythian 8	Aristomenes of Aegina	Wrestling-Match	Amphiaraus

446 (?)	Nemean 11	Aristagoras of Tenedos	Inauguration as Prytanis	None

444 (?)	Nemean 10	Theaius of Argos	Wrestling-Match	Castor, Pollux

Sentence(s)

In 498 BC, Pindar was commissioned in Thessaly to compose his first victory ode (Pythian 10).

final_sentence: In 498 BC, Pindar was commissioned in Thessaly to compose his first victory ode (Pythian 10).