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Pindar (, Pindaros, ; ) (ca. 522–443 BC), was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved. Quintilian wrote, "Of the nine lyric poets, Pindar is by far the greatest, in virtue of his inspired magnificence, the beauty of his thoughts and figures, the rich exuberance of his language and matter, and his rolling flood of eloquence, characteristics which, as Horace rightly held, make him inimitable." His poems however can also seem difficult and even peculiar. The Athenian comic playwright Eupolis once remarked that they "are already reduced to silence by the disinclination of the multitude for elegant learning". Some scholars in the modern age also found his poetry perplexing, at least up until the discovery in 1896 of some poems by his rival Bacchylides, when comparisons of their work showed that many of Pindar's idiosyncrasies are typical of archaic genres rather than of the poet himself. The brilliance of his poetry then began to be more widely appreciated. However his style still challenges the casual reader and he continues to be a much admired though largely unread poet.
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| Selected odes Selected odes web.archive.org/.../pindar.html - Web |
| Olympian 1 Olympian 1 www.rhapsodes.fll.vt.edu/PindarOlympia.htm - Web |
| Pythian 3 Pythian 3 216.71.135.198/HW/pindar.html - Web |
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| Pythian 8 Pythian 8 community.middlebury.edu/~harris/pindar.pdf - Web |
| Pindar Pindar www.perseus.tufts.edu/.../ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0004&layout=&loc=Pindar - Web |
| Pindar's Life Pindar's Life www.perseus.tufts.edu/.../ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0101%3Aid%3Di2s1 - Web |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universit... Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University www.rhapsodes.fll.vt.edu/PindarOlympia.htm - Web |
| Perseus Digital Library Lexicon to Pindar Perseus Digital Library Lexicon to Pindar www.perseus.tufts.edu/.../text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0072&redirect=true - Web |
| The Odes of Pindar The Odes of Pindar books.google.com/books?id=ocENAAAAYAAJ - Web |
| Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th ed. 1911 Vol. 21 'Pi... Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th ed. 1911 Vol. 21 'Pindar' www.archive.org/.../Pindar - Web |
| Pindar Pindar books.google.com.au/books?id=iOASsQ9p8LoC&printsec=frontcover - Web |
