The Odes of Pindar
Published on 11. December 2020
126 pages
978-1-4209-8033-2 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of the extant odes by the Greek poet Pindar presents a comprehensive look at the odes that define his poetic career. Along with Sappho, Pindar is one of the esteemed nine lyric poets of Ancient Greece. These extant odes are also representative of Greece's cultural and artistic trends at the beginning of the dynamic classical period, between the 5th and 4th century BC. Primarily in the mode of his famed victory odes, or "epikinia", Pindar elevates the legends of various athletic victors. From charioteers to wrestlers, these poems are frank yet powerful accounts of Ancient Greece's most harrowing Olympic events. Pindar's poetic style is particularly striking, often employing grandiosity unheard in his contemporaries' verse. His elegant phrasing and exacting imagery make these odes delightfully arresting. These games provide an opportunity for mortal men to be elevated to divine status; and it is these odes that so effortlessly set these transformations into action. This edition follows the translation of Ernest Myers.
More details
Content
- Intro
- Introduction
- Prefatory Note
- Olympian Odes
- I. FOR HIERON OF SYRACUSE, WINNER IN THE HORSE-RACE.
- II. FOR THERON OF AKRAGAS, WINNER IN THE CHARIOT-RACE.
- III. FOR THERON OF AKRAGAS, WINNER IN THE CHARIOT-RACE.
- IV. FOR PSAUMIS OF KAMARINA, WINNER IN THE MULE-CHARIOT-RACE.
- V. FOR PSAUMIS OF KAMARINA, WINNER IN THE MULE-CHARIOT-RACE.
- VI. FOR AGESIAS OF SYRACUSE, WINNER IN THE MULE-CHARIOT-RACE.
- VII. FOR DIAGORAS OF RHODES, WINNER IN THE BOXING-MATCH.
- VIII. FOR ALKIMEDON OF AIGINA,
- IX. FOR EPHARMOSTOS OF OPOUS, WINNER IN THE WRESTLING-MATCH.
- X. FOR AGESIDAMOS OF EPIZEPHYRIAN LOKRIS, WINNER IN THE BOYS' BOXING-MATCH.
- XI. FOR AGESIDAMOS OF EPIZEPHYRIAN LOKRIS, WINNER IN THE BOYS' BOXING-MATCH.
- XII. FOR ERGOTELES OF HIMERA, WINNER IN THE LONG FOOT-RACE.
- XIII. FOR XENOPHON OF CORINTH, WINNER IN THE STADION RACE AND IN THE PENTATHLON.
- XIV. FOR ASOPICHOS OF ORCHOMENOS, WINNER IN THE BOYS' SHORT FOOT-RACE.
- The Pythian Odes
- I. FOR HIERON OF AITNA, WINNER IN THE CHARIOT-RACE.
- II. FOR HIERON OF SYRACUSE, WINNER IN THE CHARIOT-RACE.
- III. FOR HIERON OF SYRACUSE, WINNER IN THE HORSE-RACE.
- IV. FOR ARKESILAS OF KYRENE, WINNER IN THE CHARIOT-RACE.
- V. FOR ARKESILAS OF KYRENE, WINNER IN THE CHARIOT-RACE.
- VI. FOR XENOKRATES OF AKRAGAS, WINNER IN THE CHARIOT-RACE.
- VII. FOR MEGAKLES OF ATHENS, WINNER IN THE FOUR-HORSE CHARIOT-RACE.
- VIII. FOR ARISTOMENES OF AIGINA, WINNER IN THE WRESTLING-MATCH.
- IX. FOR TELESIKRATES OF KYRENE, WINNER OF THE FOOT-RACE IN FULL ARMOUR.
- X. FOR HIPPOKLEAS OF THESSALY, WINNER IN THE TWO-STADION FOOT-RACE OF BOYS.
- XI. FOR THRASYDAIOS OF THEBES, WINNER IN THE BOYS' SHORT FOOT-RACE.
- XII. FOR MIDAS OF AKRAGAS, WINNER IN THE FLUTE-PLAYING MATCH.
- The Nemean Odes
- I. FOR CHROMIOS OF AITNA, WINNER IN THE CHARIOT-RACE.
- II. FOR TIMODEMOS OF ATHENS, WINNER IN THE PANKRATION.
- III. FOR ARISTOKLEIDES OF AIGINA, WINNER IN THE PANKRATION.
- IV. FOR TIMASARCHOS OF AIGINA, WINNER IN THE BOYS' WRESTLING-MATCH.
- V. FOR PYTHEAS OF AIGINA, WINNER IN THE BOYS' PANKRATION.
- VI. FOR ALKIMIDAS OF AIGINA, WINNER IN THE BOYS' WRESTLING-MATCH.
- VII. FOR SOGENES OF AIGINA, WINNER IN THE BOYS' PENTATHLON.
- VIII. FOR DEINIS OF AIGINA, WINNER IN THE SHORT FOOT-RACE.
- IX. FOR CHROMIOS OF AITNA, WINNER IN THE CHARIOT-RACE.
- X. FOR THEAIOS OF ARGOS, WINNER IN THE WRESTLING-MATCH.
- XI. FOR ARISTAGORAS OF TENEDOS, ON HIS ELECTION TO THE PRESIDENCY OF THE SENATE.
- The Isthmian Odes
- I. FOR HERODOTOS OF THEBES, WINNER IN THE CHARIOT-RACE.
- II. FOR XENOKRATES OF AKRAGAS, WINNER IN THE CHARIOT-RACE.
- III. FOR MELISSOS OF THEBES, WINNER IN THE PANKRATION.
- IV. FOR PHYLAKIDAS OF AIGINA, WINNER IN THE PANKRATION.
- V. FOR PHYLAKIDAS OF AIGINA, WINNER IN THE PANKRATION.
- VI. FOR STREPSIADES OF THEBES, WINNER IN THE PANKRATION.
- VII. FOR KLEANDROS OF AIGINA, WINNER IN THE PANKRATION.
- Fragments
- FRAGMENT OF A DITHYRAMB, TO BE SUNG AT ATHENS.
- FRAGMENTS OF A PROCESSION-SONG (p???d???), IN HONOUR OF DELOS.
- FRAGMENT OF A SONG WITH ACCOMPANIMENT OF DANCE (?p???µa)WRITTEN ON OCCASION OF AN ECLIPSE OF THE SUN, PROBABLY THAT OF APRIL 30, B.C. 463.
- FRAGMENTS OF DIRGES (??????).
