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The Odes
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Arguably the greatest /Greek lyric poet, Pindar (518-438 B. C.) was a controversial figure in fifth-century Greece-a conservative Boiotian aristocrat who studied in Athens and a writer on physical prowess whose interest in the Games was largely philosophical. Pindar's Epinician Odes-choral songs extolling victories in the Games at Olympia, Delphi, Nemea and Korinth cover the whole spectrum of the Greek moral order, from earthly competition to fate and mythology.
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- ISBN-13: 9780140442090
- ISBN-10: 014044209X
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- Publish Date: December 1982
- Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.5 pounds
- Page Count: 256
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