Overview
Pindar (ca. 518–438 BC), esteemed lyric poet, commemorates in complex verse the achievements of athletes and powerful rulers at the four great Panhellenic festivals—the Olympic, Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian games—against a backdrop of divine favor, human failure, heroic legend, and aristocratic ambition.
- | Author: Pindar
- | Publisher: Harvard University Press
- | Publication Date: Apr 15, 1997
- | Number of Pages:
- | Language: eng
- | Binding: Hardback
- | ISBN-13: 9780674995345
- | ISBN-10: 0674995341