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Product details
- ISBN 9780140442090
- Weight: 200g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 1982
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Arguably the greatest Greek lyric poet, Pindar was a controversial figure in fifth-century Greece - a conservative Boiotian aristocrat who studied in Athens and a writer on physical prowess whose interest in the Games was largely philosophical. Pindar's Epinician Odes - choral songs extolling victories in the Games at Olympia, Delphi, Nemea and Korinth - cover the whole spectrum of the Greek moral order, from earthly competition to fate and mythology. But in C. M. Bowra's clear translation his one central image stands out - the successful athlete transformed and transfigured by the power of the gods.
