# The Odes of Pindar

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- Book: [The Odes of Pindar](https://www.bookquiver.com/cecil-maurice-bowra/the-odes-of-pindar) ([The Odes of Pindar.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/cecil-maurice-bowra/the-odes-of-pindar.md))
- Authors: [Cecil Maurice Bowra](https://www.bookquiver.com/cecil-maurice-bowra)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4124-197-4
- Published: 2015-08-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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 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. Translated with an introduction by C. M. Bowra.