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Pindar

Also known as Pindarus, Pindaros, Dircæan Swan

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Pindar was an ancient Greek poet from Thebes whose lyric poems are the best-surviving works among the nine major lyric poets of ancient Greece, and he was celebrated by later critics like Quintilian for his magnificent language and eloquence. However, his poems are also known for being difficult and sometimes peculiar to read, which has made them challenging for audiences throughout history.

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Person · Open Library

Born: ca. 522 BC
Died: ca. 443 BC
Works: 373

Top works

Sentenzen
The odes of Pindar tr. into English metre
Les Olympiques de Pindare
Odas
Pindari Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: Greece

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Listeners: 765
Total plays: 2,049

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Quotes

“ἄριστον μὲν ὕδωρ, ὁ δὲ χρυσὸς αἰθόμενον πῦρἅτε διαπρέπει νυκτὶ μεγάνορος ἔξοχα πλούτου.”
“ἁμέραι δ᾿ ἐπίλοιποιμάρτυρες σοφώτατοι.”
“εἰ δὲ θεὸν ἀνήρ τις ἔλπεταί⟨τι⟩ λαθέμεν ἔρδων, ἁμαρτάνει.”
“ὁ μέγας δὲ κίν-δυνος ἄναλκιν οὔ φῶτα λαμβάνει.”
“μή, φίλα ψυχά, βίον ἀθάνατονσπεῦδε, τὰν δ᾿ ἔμπρακτον ἄντλει μαχανάν.”
“ἐπάμεροι· τί δέ τις; τί δ᾿ οὔ τις; σκιᾶς ὄναρἄνθρωπος. ἀλλ᾿ ὅταν αἴγλα διόσδοτος ἔλθῃ,λαμπρὸν φέγγος ἔπεστιν ἀνδρῶν καὶ μείλιχος αἰών.”

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Key facts

Writer.image: Bust of Pindar.jpg
Writer.image_upright: 0.9
Writer.caption: Pindar, Roman copy of Greek 5th century BC bust (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples)
Writer.native_name: Πίνδαρος
Writer.native_name_lang: grc
Writer.birth_place: Cynoscephalae, Boiotia
Writer.death_date: (aged approximately 80)
Writer.death_place: Argos
Writer.occupation: Lyric poet
Writer.genre: Poetry

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Wikidata facts

Image: Pindar statue.jpg

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Commons category: Pindar
Commons Creator page: Pindar
name in native language: Πίνδαρος
date of birth: 0517-00-00
date of death: 0450-00-00
P12749: Josef Stübben
significant place: Thebes

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Works in European collections

34 objects attributed to Pindar, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Pindari Carmen Primum In Psaumidem Sive Olympicorum Quartum Cum Commentarii Specimine

Pindari Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia :Graece & Latine

Aristologia Pindarica Graecolatina: Hoc est, quicquid est in Pindaro, uate ut uetustißimo, ita quoq [ue] castißimo & sapientißimo, memorabile... obuium... = Aristologia Pindarikē Hellenikolatinē

Panta ta Pindaru .... 1

Pindari Carmina quae supersunt :cum deperditorum fragmentis selectis. 2, Commentarius

Pindarou. Olympia. Pythia. Nemea. Isthmia. Kallimachou hymnoi, hoi heuriskomenoi. Dionysiou periēgēsis Lykophronos alexandra, to skoteinon poiēma. Pindari. Olympia. Pythia. Nemea. Isthmia. Callimachi hymni qui inueniuntur. Dionysius de situ orbis, Licophronis Alexandra, obscurum poema

Pindarus

Pindari Carmina [Printed Text]:] cum lectionis varietate et adnotationibus

Pindari poetae vetustissimi, lyricorum facile principis, Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia [Texto impreso]

Pindari Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia [Texto Pin]:] caeterorum octo lyricorum carmina, Alcaei, Sapphus, Stesiehori, Ibici, Anacreontis, Bacchilidis, Simonidis, Alemanis, nonnulla etiam aliorum, omnia graece & latine, Pindari interpretatio noua est, eaque ad verbum, caeteri partim ad verbum, partim carmine sunt redditi

Carmina Quae Supersunt Cum Deperditorum Fragmentis Selectis Ex Recensione Boeckhii Commentario Perpetuo Illustravit Ludolphus Dissenius, Professor Gottingensis

Le Odi. Traduzione Di Giuseppe Borghi Riveduta E Corretta Dal Traduttore

Pindari Carmina Ex Interpretatione Latina Emendatiore. Cvravit Christian. Gottlob Heyne

Odi

Tutte le opere

Werke, Urschrift, Übersetzung in den Pindarischen Versmaaßen und Erläuterungen. Th. 1

Carmina :cum lectionis varietate et adnotationibus. 1

Pindari Carmina

Pindar's Siegesgesaenge :mit Prolegomenis ueber Pindarische Kolometrie und Textkritik. 1, Olympische Siegesgesänge : griechisch und deutsch

Pindari Carmina :cum lectionis varietate et adnotationibus. 2,2, Scholia In Pythia Nemea Et Isthmia

An attempt at a prosaic translation of the Greek songs of Pindar. 1, 1 The Olympic victory songs in themselves

Pindari Carmina :cum lectionis varietate et adnotationibus. 2,1, Interpretatio Latina Et Scholia In Olympia : Vetera Et Recentia

Pindari Carmina :cum lectionis varietate et adnotationibus. 1

Pindari Opera quae supersunt. 2,2

Pindari Carmina

Pindaru Periodos hoc est Pindari Lyricorum Principis, Plus Quam Sexcentis In Locis emaculati ... Olympionikai. Pythionikai. Nemeonikai. Isthmionikai Illustrati :Versione nova fideli. Rationis metricae indicatione certa.Ddispositione textus genuina. Commentatio sufficiente ...

Olympionikai, Pythionikai, Nemeonikai, Isthmionikai. [2], Pythionikai

Pindari Opera quae supersunt. 2,1

Pindari Carmina quae supersunt :cum deperditorum fragmentis selectis. 1, Carmina : cum annnatatione critica

Carmina :cum lectionis varietate et adnotationibus. 3,1, Carminum Pindaricorum fragmenta et Godofredi Hermanni Dissertationes Pindaricae

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Article

23 sections

Contents

Biography
Sources
Life
Infancy to adulthood
Middle age
Old age and death
Post mortem
Values and beliefs
Works
Victory odes
Style
Structure
Chronological order
Manuscripts, shreds and quotes
Influence and legacy
Horace's tribute
Bowra's tribute
See also
Notes
References
Sources
Further reading
External links

Pindar (; ; ; ) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved. Quintilian wrote, "Of the nine lyric poets, Pindar is by far the greatest, in virtue of his inspired magnificence, the beauty of his thoughts and figures, the rich exuberance of his language and matter, and his rolling flood of eloquence, characteristics which, as Horace rightly held, make him inimitable." His poems can also, however, seem difficult and even peculiar. The Athenian comic playwright Eupolis once remarked that they "are already reduced to silence by the disinclination of the multitude for elegant learning". Some scholars in the modern age also found his poetry perplexing, at least until the 1896 discovery of some poems by his rival Bacchylides; comparisons of their work showed that many of Pindar's idiosyncrasies are typical of archaic genres rather than of only the poet himself. His poetry, while admired by critics, still challenges the casual reader and his work is largely unread among the general public.

Pindar was the first Greek poet to reflect on the nature of poetry and on the poet's role. His poetry illustrates the beliefs and values of Archaic Greece at the dawn of the Classical period. Like other poets of the Archaic Age, he has a profound sense of the vicissitudes of life, but he also articulates a passionate faith in what men can achieve by the grace of the gods, most famously expressed in the conclusion to one of his Victory Odes: