Olympian Odes. Pythian Odes
Contributors: William H. Race (Translator)
Publisher: Loeb Classical Library
Published: April 15, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780674995642
Subjects: Poetry anthologies: classical, early & medieval; Translations into English; Literary Criticism; Greek Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Pindar; Ancient and Classical; History / Ancient / Greece; Athletics; Greece; Laudatory poetry, Greek; Olympic games (Ancient); Poetry
First sentence: "Of the nine Greek lyric poets Pindar is by far the greatest for the magnificence of his inspiration, his precepts, figures of language, lavish abundance of matter and words, and river (so to speak) of eloquence."
Notes: Loeb Classical Library