The life of Pindar.
...thers say that Scopelinus was his uncle and was a flute-player, who taught Pindar his craft. His mother was Cleodice, but some spell it Cledice.
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The life of Pindar.
...thers say that Scopelinus was his uncle and was a flute-player, who taught Pindar his craft. His mother was Cleodice, but some spell it Cledice.
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...l-suited to be continually observed. But others ascribe it to Hercules, as Pindar does, adorning the contest with even more glory. For after he cleaned out t
Pindar died during the archonship of Abion in the 86th Olympiad after living for s
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...l-suited to be continually observed. But others ascribe it to Hercules, as Pindar does, adorning the contest with even more glory. For after he cleaned out t
Pindar died during the archonship of Abion in the 86th Olympiad after living for s
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...ious hymns to the gods and the cares of honey-voiced maidens. This is what Pindar was like, and this is what happened to him and what he accomplished. [30] H
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{{DISPLAYTITLE: Scholium to Pindar, ''Pythian Ode'' 3.77-8 = 137b Drachmann}}
...ated the oracular response and honoured there the goddess with rituals, as Pindar had done.
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{{DISPLAYTITLE: Scholium to Pindar, ''Pythian Ode'' 3.77-8 = 137b Drachmann}}
...ated the oracular response and honoured there the goddess with rituals, as Pindar had done.
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{{DISPLAYTITLE: Scholium to Pindar, ''Nemean Ode'' 7.102 = 150a Drachmann}}
...tless to plow the very same fields of words as young foolish children do.” Pindar also says “to tear, harm” rather than “to wrong.” The analogy is fr
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{{DISPLAYTITLE: Scholium to Pindar, ''Nemean Ode'' 7.102 = 150a Drachmann}}
...tless to plow the very same fields of words as young foolish children do.” Pindar also says “to tear, harm” rather than “to wrong.” The analogy is fr
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{{DISPLAYTITLE: Scholium to Pindar, ''Isthmian Ode'' 1.1 = 1a Drachmann}}
“My mother”: meaning that Pindar is from Thebes.
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{{DISPLAYTITLE: Scholium to Pindar, ''Nemean Ode'' 3.82 = 143 Drachmann}}
...– for indeed there was suspicion between the two poets for each other. But Pindar compares himself to the eagle, Bacchylides to the jackdaw.
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{{DISPLAYTITLE: Scholium to Pindar, ''Isthmian Ode'' 1.1 = 1a Drachmann}}
“My mother”: meaning that Pindar is from Thebes.
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{{DISPLAYTITLE: Suda s.v. ‘Pindar’ = π 1617 Adler}}
...Scopelinus is more obscure and a kinsman of Pindar. Some also related that Pindar was the son of Pagonides. He was student of the woman Myrtis, born in the 6
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{{DISPLAYTITLE: Suda s.v. ‘Pindar’ = π 1617 Adler}}
...Scopelinus is more obscure and a kinsman of Pindar. Some also related that Pindar was the son of Pagonides. He was student of the woman Myrtis, born in the 6
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...adornments such as rare words, analogies, paraphrases, songs, and rhythms. Pindar paid close attention to this advice and composed that famous ode:
...d said you should sow seed with the hand, not the entire sack. For in fact Pindar had heaped and jumbled up an entire panoply of stories and poured it into h
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...They go in a procession to the doors of Daïphantus [Pindar's father] – for Pindar has come to life, as you can see – and they mould him from when he is a c
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{{DISPLAYTITLE: Scholium to Pindar, ''Nemean Ode'' 3.82 = 143 Drachmann}}
...– for indeed there was suspicion between the two poets for each other. But Pindar compares himself to the eagle, Bacchylides to the jackdaw.
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...ot give much thought to the other poets, but he thought of Stesichorus and Pindar. Of the former, because he seemed to be an imitator of Homer and because he
Do not burn the house of the poet Pindar.
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...ar and a temple of the Mother Dindymene. The votive offering was set up by Pindar, but the crafting of the statue belongs to Aristomedes and Socrates from Th
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...happened upon an unsophisticated audience and lost to Corinna five times. Pindar insulted their lack of taste in music by calling Corinna ‘a pig’.
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