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Nemeiska och isthmiska oden: fragment
Pindaros var antikens störste författare av den körlyrik som
hyllade vinnare i de olympiska spelen. I sina oden kopplar han
samman idrottsframgångar med livets stora frågor. Pindaros
poesi har haft stor betydelse för eftervärlden, exempelvis för
William Shakespeare.
Denna andra Pindarosvolym innehåller även ett urval av de
fragment som bevarats, samt ett utförligt register. Liksom i
den första volymen, Olympiska och pythiska oden, har Sture
Linnér skrivit förord.
hyllade vinnare i de olympiska spelen. I sina oden kopplar han
samman idrottsframgångar med livets stora frågor. Pindaros
poesi har haft stor betydelse för eftervärlden, exempelvis för
William Shakespeare.
Denna andra Pindarosvolym innehåller även ett urval av de
fragment som bevarats, samt ett utförligt register. Liksom i
den första volymen, Olympiska och pythiska oden, har Sture
Linnér skrivit förord.
168 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 447
About the author
Pindar
714 books105 followersalso know as Pindare.
People remember Greek lyric poet Pindar (522 BC-443 BC) especially for his odes, celebrating victorious athletes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pindar
People remember Greek lyric poet Pindar (522 BC-443 BC) especially for his odes, celebrating victorious athletes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pindar
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December 19, 2025
Read only for the fragments. Loved them. If we could only have more complete poetry by him than just the Odes.
January 3, 2011
Comment:
Yet another Loeb book that I have lost the companion volume to! This is translated by William H. Race.
Pindar is of the ancient race, and his judgments belong to an Archaic Greece that was gradually being transformed into our 'Classical Greece.'
"I believe that Odysseus story has become greater than his actual suffering because of Homer's sweet verse, for upon his fictions and soaring craft rests great majesty, and his skill deceives with misleading tales. The great majority of men have a blind heart, for if they could have seen the truth, mighty Aias, in anger over his arms, would not have planted in his chest the smooth sword. Except for Achilles, in battle he was the best..." (Nemean 7.)
Ajax, and not Odysseus, deserved Achilles arms. This is the ancient (or archaic) judgment, but today, we who have been formed by a history that truly begins in Classical Greece all feel differently. When I was young and first read the Iliad and Pindar it was then that I first realized that there had once been a different world...
Yet another Loeb book that I have lost the companion volume to! This is translated by William H. Race.
Pindar is of the ancient race, and his judgments belong to an Archaic Greece that was gradually being transformed into our 'Classical Greece.'
"I believe that Odysseus story has become greater than his actual suffering because of Homer's sweet verse, for upon his fictions and soaring craft rests great majesty, and his skill deceives with misleading tales. The great majority of men have a blind heart, for if they could have seen the truth, mighty Aias, in anger over his arms, would not have planted in his chest the smooth sword. Except for Achilles, in battle he was the best..." (Nemean 7.)
Ajax, and not Odysseus, deserved Achilles arms. This is the ancient (or archaic) judgment, but today, we who have been formed by a history that truly begins in Classical Greece all feel differently. When I was young and first read the Iliad and Pindar it was then that I first realized that there had once been a different world...
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