Pindar's 'Sixth Olympian Ode' is considered one of the poet's most brilliant victory odes and this is the first full-scale commentary on it. The author presents Greek text with critical apparatus, translation and metrical analysis. There are three substantial introductory chapte…
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…
Nemean odes ; Isthmian odes ; fragments
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…
Nemean Odes. Isthmian Odes. Fragments
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…