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  • Published: 26 May 1988
  • ISBN: 9780140442090
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $32.99
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The Odes of Pindar





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.

  • Published: 26 May 1988
  • ISBN: 9780140442090
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $32.99
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