Author:Pindar

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Pindar
(517 BCE – 437 BCE)

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Considered the greatest of the nine canonical Greek lyric poets. Only his Victory Odes (Epinicia) survive intact; his other works exist solely as fragments and quotations.

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See Portal:Odes of Pindar for odes listed individually.

• The Odes of Pindar, with several other pieces translated, trans. Gilbert West (1749) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• Pindar in English Verse, trans. Henry Francis Cary (1833) (external scan)
• Pindar, trans. C. A. Wheelwright, in Pindar and Anacreon (1846)
• The Odes of Pindar, trans. Dawson W. Turner (1852) (external scan)
• The Odes of Pindar, trans. F. A. Paley (1868) (transcription project)
• The Extant Odes of Pindar, trans. Ernest Myers (1874)
• Pindar in English Rhyme, trans. Thomas C. Baring (1875) (external scan)
• The Olympian and Pythian Odes of Pindar, trans. F. D. Morice (1876) (external scan)
• Pindar: The Olympian and Pythian Odes, Basil L. Gildersleeve (1885) (external scan)
• Translations from Pindar, trans. Henry D. Thoreau (1906 ed.)
• Pindar, in English verse, trans. Arthur S. Way (1922) (transcription project)

Fragments

• "Fragments", in The Extant Odes of Pindar, trans. Ernest Myers (1874)
• "Translations from Pindar", trans. Henry D. Thoreau (1906 ed.)

• "Biographical Sketch of Pindar", by C. A. Wheelwright, in Pindar and Anacreon (1846)
• "Pindar", Chapter XV. in History of the Literature of Ancient Greece, to the period of Isocrates, by K. O. Müller, translated by George Cornewall Lewis (1847)
• Pindar, by F. D. Morice (1879)
• "Pindar", by John Henry Wright, in Masterpieces of Greek Literature (1902)

• “Pindarus 1.”, by William Smith in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.
• "Pindar," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Pindar," by Richard Claverhouse Jebb in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Pindar," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)

• "Pindar", a paper by Classicist R. C. Jebb (1882)