Pindar's Odes, blending beauty of poetic form and profundity of  thought, are one of the wonders of Ancient Greece. Composed in  the first instance to commemorate athletics victories, they fan  out like a peacock's tail to illuminate with brilliant subtlety  and imagination the human condition in general, and how our  moments of heroic achievement are inevitably tempered by our  mortal frailties. This edition aims to make for the first time a  selection of these wonderful, but complex, poems accessible and  enjoyable not only to scholars and advanced students but  especially to sixth-form students and non-Classicists (including  anyone interested in Pindar's influence on English poetry). While  particular attention is paid to elucidating Pindar's cryptic  chains of thoughts and to explaining the significance of the  myths in the odes, much greater help than usual in this series is  given with translating the Greek. The selection, which contains  Pindar's most famous poem (Olympian 1) and two particularly  charming mythical stories (in Pythian 9 and Nemean 3),  illustrates Pindar's range and variety by including odes  commemorating victors at each of the four major games. Greek text  with translation, commentary and notes.

Pindar: Selected Odes (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts) (Ancient Greek Edition)

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Instone, Stephen

Poetry

Liverpool University Press

Pindar's Odes, blending beauty of poetic form and profundity of thought, are one of the wonders of Ancient Greece.

<p>The relationship between the individual and the divine in ancient Greece is a complex one, which has tended to be neglected in favour of studies of state religion, festivals, sanctuaries and oracles.<br></p>

Greek Personal Religion: A Reader (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts)

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Pindar: Selected Odes (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts) (Ancient Greek Edition)

Pindar: Selected Odes (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts) (Ancient Greek Edition)

Greek Personal Religion: A Reader (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts)