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The Odes of Pindar (Classics) by Cecil Bowra is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Odes of Pindar (Classics) about?
'What Pindar catches is the joy beyond ordinary emotions as it transcends and transforms them' - C. M. Bowra Arguably the greatest Greek lyric poet, Pindar (518-438 B. C.) was a controversial figure in fifth-century Greece - a conservative Boiotian aristocrat who studied in Athens and a writer on physical prowess whose interest in the Games was largely philosophical. Pindar's Epinician Odes - choral songs extolling victories in the Games at Olympia, Delphi, Nemea and Korinth - cover the whole sp
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Cecil Bowra
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780241241974
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Poetry, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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