The extant odes of Pindar
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The extant odes of Pindar
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The extant odes of Pindar
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electronic resourcePindar.
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Primarily in the mode of his famed victory odes, or "epikinia," Pindar elevates the legends of various athletic victors. From charioteers to wrestlers, these poems are frank yet powerful accounts of Ancient Greece's most harrowing Olympic events. Pindar's poetic style is particularly striking, often employing grandiosity unheard in his contemporaries' verse. His elegant phrasing and exacting imagery make these odes delightfully arresting. These games provide an opportunity for mortal men to be elevated to divine status; and it is these odes that so effortlessly set these transformations into action
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