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Nonfiction · Lyric poetry

The Odes of Pindar

Pindar
470 BC · 186 pages

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.

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