Pindar

Description:

Pindar (c. 518-438 BCE), highly esteemed as lyric poet by the ancients, commemorates in complex verse the achievements of athletes and powerful rulers at the four great Panhellenic festivals, Olympic, Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian games, against a backdrop of divine favor, human failure, heroic legend, and aristocratic Greek ethos.

subjects: great_books_of_the_western_world,  Greek language,  Readers,  Greek Laudatory poetry,  Translations into English,  Poetry,  Greek poetry,  Games,  Athletics,  Translations into German,  Olympic games (Ancient),  Pindar,  Odes

People: Pindar,  Basil L. Gildersleeve (1831-1924,)

Places: Greece