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These translations revive the confident excitement of their original performances.

You've just won the gold medal, what are you going to do? In Ancient Greece, your patron could throw a feast in your honor and have a poet write a hymn of praise to you. The great poet Pindar composed many such odes for victorious athletes. This title presents a fresh translation of Pindar's victory songs.

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...

Accessible and affordable illustrated biography

What Pindar catches is the joy beyond ordinary emotions as it transcends and transforms them' -C. M. BowraArguably 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, D...

Dieses Buch enthält eine kleine Kostbarkeit für die Freunde antiker Poesie: Im Nachlaß von Uvo Hölscher, einem der besten Kenner frühgriechischer Dichtung und Philosophie, fanden sich wenig bekannte Übersetzungen von elf Siegesliedern Pindars (518 - 446 v.Chr.), die hier erstmals zusammengestellt und knapp erläutert werden. Hölscher ist es gelungen, die Schönheit der Verse Pindars, der stets als Gipfel der Dichtkunst galt, auch in der Übertrag...

Der griechische Lyriker Pindar (522/18 - nach 446 v. Chr.) hat seine Gedichte zu verschiedenen festlichen Anlässen geschrieben, unter anderem zu den Olympischen Spielen oder zu den Pythischen Spielen, die zu Ehren Apollons gefeiert wurden. Die Achte Pythische Ode ist Pindars Alterswerk, und sie hat über die Jahrhunderte immer wieder zu Nachdichtungen in vielen Sprachen angeregt. Pablo Picasso hat Pindars Ode illustriert, auch diese Bilder ein ...