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Pindar
Pindar
c. 518 BCE–c. 438 BCE · Thebes
Pindar (c. 518 - c. 438 BCE) was the most celebrated Greek lyric poet, born near Thebes. He is best known for his victory odes, choral songs composed to honor winners at the great athletic festivals such as the Olympic Games. Written in a grand, densely allusive style that weaves together myth, praise, and moral reflection, his poems are among the finest achievements of early Greek lyric and our richest source for that genre.
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The chief city of Boeotia—rich in myth as the home of Oedipus and the Seven against Thebes, birthplace of the great lyric poet Pindar, and, for one brief generation, the dominant military power of all Greece.
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