# The Odes of Pindar

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- Authors: [Cecil Maurice Bowra](https://www.bookquiver.com/cecil-maurice-bowra)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4044-209-0
- Pages: 256
- Published: 1988-05-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Arguably the greatest Greek lyric poet, Pindar 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 spectrum of the Greek moral order, from earthly competition to fate and mythology. But in C. M. Bowra's clear translation his one central image stands out - the successful athlete transformed and transfigured by the power of the gods.