Pindar,Cecil Maurice Bowra,Daniel C. Snell,Dawson William Turner,Maehler,Abraham Moore
Arguably the greatest Greek lyric poet, Pindar 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. But in C. M. Bowra's clear translation his one central image stands out - the successful athlete transformed and transfigured by the power of the gods.
Poetry,Classics,Fantasy,Mythology,Literature,Ancient,Fiction,Literature,Cultural,Greece,History,Ancient History,Humanities,Classical Studies,Philosophy
The Odes