Pindar
Subtitle: Nemean Odes, Isthmian Odes, Fragments. (Loeb Classical Library No. 485)
Contributors: William H. Race (Translator)
Publisher: Loeb Classical Library
Published: April 15, 1997
Language: eng; grc
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780674995345
Subjects: Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Poetry texts & anthologies; Translations into English; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Greek Literature; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Italian; Literature: Classics; Pindar; Ancient and Classical; History / Ancient / Greece; Athletics; Greece; Laudatory poetry, Greek; Olympic games (Ancient); Poetry
Description: 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.