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Pindar

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Author(s) : Larson Stephanie (26/10/2011)

For citation: Larson Stephanie , "Pindar", 2011,
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SUMMARY

Lyric poet (518 – c. 438 BCE), many of whose works survive and span a large numbers of genres. His work thus represents the long transition between two major periods in Greek history, the Archaic and Classical periods, and also spans a number of landmark events and processes in Greece as a whole: the Persian Wars and the rise of the Athenian Empire. Most of his extant poems are categorized as epinikia, poems commissioned to celebrate victors at the four major panhellenic festivals: the Olympic, the Delphic, the Nemean, and the Isthmian Games.

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Poet

Date and Place of Death

438 B.C.

Date and Place of Birth

518 B.C. , Kynos Kephalai near Thebes

 
 
 

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