Book · 470 BC · Nonfiction

The Odes of Pindar

Name: The Odes of Pindar
Author: Pindar

Oxford University Press, USA · 186 pages

★ 7.0 editorial score

Water is best, the first ode opens, then praises a Sicilian king whose horse won at Olympia. Pindar makes athletic victory an occasion for myth and for warnings about mortal limits.

Genre

Lyric poetry

Medium

Poetry

Subject

Athletics Glory Myth Piety

Setting

Greece

Time

470 BCDepicts Classical Antiquity

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Quote · 1973

“A myth is a religion in which no-one any longer believes.”

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