Pindar: Victory Odes: Olympians 2, 7 and 11; Nemean 4; Isthmians 3, 4 and 7
Pindar
192 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0521436362
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Language: English
Publish: 801471600000
The Greek lyric poet Pindar is renowned for poems celebrating athletic victories in the great games of Olympia, Delphi, Corinth and Nemea. Seven extant odes are analyzed with the aid of a commentary that progresses by level of difficulty and pays critical attention to the conventions of the victory ode.