Pindar

by Richard Stoneman

The 6th/5th century BCE Greek melic (or songwriting) poet Pindar was one of the most celebrated lyricists of antiquity. His famous victory odes offer a paean to the heroic athlete, and collectively are an attempt to encapsulate, through choral songs of exaltation, the glory of the sportsman's moment of victory - whether in athletics or horse-racing - at a variety of Panhellenic festivals and Olympian games. Yet Pindar, though still respected, is now...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780761856
• ISBN13: 9781780761855
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.3"