367 pages
English language
Published 1990 by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Pindar's Victory songs
by Pindar
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Pindar's victory odes, written in the fifth century B.C. to commemorate the heroes of the athletic games, are some of the most powerful and intricte works of ancient Greek poetry -- and perhaps the most difficult to translate well.
Subjects
- Pindar -- Translations into English
- Laudatory poetry, Greek -- Translations into English
- Olympic games (Ancient) -- Poetry
- Athletics -- Greece -- Poetry
- Mythology, Greek -- Poetry
- Games -- Greece -- Poetry