[DOC] [TLE] Pindar - Wikipedia [PAR] Pindar (c. 522  c. 443 BC) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes. Of the 
canonical nine .... For example, the victory ode mentioned above (Pythian 8) 
describes the downfall of the .... Works[edit] ... in one of his victory odes (
Olympian 3), he announces his invention of a new type of musical ... Of lordly 
praise, and shun. [DOC] [TLE] Olympic Ode 1 - Pindar - Ancient Greece - Classical Literature [PAR] ... loved works of prose, poetry and drama from ancient Greece - Olympic Ode 1 
by ... the best known of the many victory poems of the ancient Greek lyric poet 
Pindar. ... of Pindar's Olympian odes because of its praise for the Olympic Games 
in... [DOC] [TLE] Pindar - Ancient Greece - Classical Literature [PAR] Introduction | Biography | Writings | Major Works. Introduction, Back to Top of 
Page. Pindar was one of the most famous ancient Greek lyric poets, and perhaps 
the ... only in fragments, but nearly a quarter of all Pindar's poems survive 
complete). ... victory odes) in honour of notable personages and winners of 
athletic games. [DOC] [TLE] Pindar | Greek poet | Britannica.com [PAR] The greatest lyric poet of ancient Greece and the master of epinicia, choral odes 
celebrating victories achieved in the Pythian, Olympic, Isthmian, and Nemean 
games. ... way, Pindar argued, poems were superior to the other popular medium 
of praise, the .... His many volumes include such works as A Christmas Carol, 
David... [DOC] [TLE] Poetry's Relationship With the Olympics - The New York Times [PAR] Jun 29, 2012 ... In ancient Greece, literary events were an indispensable part of ... Champion 
athletes commissioned great poets like Pindar to compose their victory odes, 
which ... 1936 and 1948 to include specific contests for epic and lyric poetry. ... 
Many of the poems from these seven Olympic Games have .... Type Size. [DOC] [TLE] Pindar and the Poetics of the Athlete - Center for Hellenic Studies [PAR] One paradox of the study of ancient Greek athletics is that the epinikian odes of 
Pindar ... A further important motif used by Pindar to celebrate athletic victory
more ... Here I will develop the poet-athlete nexus by exploring Pindar's praise of 
the ..... the mule-cart race ceased to be an event at the Olympic games by 440 BC
,... [DOC] [TLE] Pindar : People - Ancient Greece - Resources for Ancient Biblical ... [PAR] 522443 BC) He was an Ancient Greek lyric poet. ... the high praise which he 
bestowed on Athens as the 'Stay of Greece' roused the ... A victory at one of the 
great games was a matter of joy and pride not only to ... Pindaric Heracles, who is 
held up as the type of achievement and endurance in obedience to the divine will
. [DOC] [TLE] PINDAR THE PIOUS POET: PRAYER AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN ... [PAR] victory is a moment of divine favor, however, and Pindar's epinician odes deal 
with the .... told us that every epinician ode attempts, in its every part, to praise the 
victor; ... a more fundamental assumption still, one that is central to ancient Greek 
culture: ... within a religious festival, and Pindar constantly includes the gods in 
his... [DOC] [TLE] Greece, A History of Ancient Greece, GREEK LITERATURE [PAR] Together the works of Homer and Hesiod made a kind of bible for the Greeks. ... 
With Pindar the transition has been made from the preclassical to the classical 
age. ... the poems that celebrated athletic victories in the games at Olympia, 
Delphi, .... three works in praise of the philosopher Socrates--'Apology', '
Symposium',... [DOC] [TLE] Ancient Greek Poets - Crystalinks [PAR] Lesser 3rd-century poets include Aratus of Soli and Herodas. ... BC) was an 
Ancient Greek choral lyric poet from Sparta. ..... elegies, hymns-- one of which 
used to be sung by the victors in the Olympic games-- and of poems in the iambic 
and trochaic measures. .... The Ode of Victory was properly a song in praise of a 
deity.

Question: The works of ancient Greece's Pindar include this type of poem in praise of victories in the Olympic Games
Answer: ode