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noun - Greek lyric poet remembered for his odes (518?-438? BC)
PINDAR - Pindar (; Greek: Pindaros, pro noun ced [píndaros]; Latin: Pindarus; c. 522 c. 443 BC) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes. Of the canonical...
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| When Alexander the Great burned Thebes to the ground, the only house spared was that of this great lyric poet |
| The chief lyric poet of Ancient Greece, he's famous for his triumphal odes |
| When Alexander the Great razed Thebes in 335 B.C., he spared the home of this lyric poet |
| Ancient Greek poet who "ode" a lot(6) |
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| Greek lyric poet remembered for his odes (518?-438? BC) |
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| Pindar (; Greek: Pindaros, pronounced [píndaros]; Latin: Pindarus; c. 522 c. 443 BC) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved. Quintilian wrote, "Of the nine lyric poets, Pindar is by far the greatest, in virtue of his inspired magnificence, the beauty of his thoughts and figures, the rich exuberance of his language and matter, and his rolling flood of eloquence, characteristics which, as Horace rightly held, make him inimitable." His poems can also, however, seem difficult and even peculiar. The Athenian comic playwright Eupolis once remarked that they "are already reduced to silence by the disinclination of the multitude for elegant learning". Some scholars in the modern age also found his poetry perplexing, at least until the 1896 discovery of some poems by his rival Bacchylides; comparisons of their work showed that many of Pindar's idiosyncrasies are typical of archaic genres rather than of |