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  2. Olympian 1 - Wikipedia

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    The ode begins with a priamel, where the rival distinctions of water and gold are introduced as a foil to the true prize, the celebration of victory in song. [7] Ring-composed, [8] Pindar returns in the final lines to the mutual dependency of victory and poetry, where "song needs deeds to celebrate, and success needs songs to make the areta last". [9]

  3. Hiero I of Syracuse - Wikipedia

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    He won the chariot race at Delphi in 470 BC (a victory celebrated in Pindar's first Pythian ode) and at Olympia in 468 BC (this, his greatest victory, was commemorated in Bacchylides' third victory ode). Other odes dedicated to him include Pindar's first Olympian Ode, his second and third Pythian odes, and Bacchylides' fourth and fifth victory ...

  4. Pindar - Wikipedia

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    Pindar's Life by Basil L. Gildersleeve, in Pindar: The Olympian and Pythian Odes; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Pindar, Olympian Odes, I, 1–64; read by William Mullen; Perseus Digital Library Lexicon to Pindar, William J. Slater, De Gruyter 1969: scholarly dictionary for research into Pindar

  5. Olympian 3 - Wikipedia

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    The third Olympian celebrates the same victory as the second (that of 476), but, while the former Ode was probably sung in the palace of Theron, the present was performed in the temple of the Dioscuri at Acragas, on the occasion of the festival of the Theoxenia, when the gods were deemed to be entertained by Castor and Polydeuces.

  6. Pythian 1 - Wikipedia

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    Hiero, tyrant of Syracuse, had been the recipient of Pindar's First Olympian Ode in 476 BC. His victory in the Pythian games comes in the wake of a number of significant military accomplishments: his defeat of the Carthaginians at the Battle of Himera and of the Etruscans in the naval Battle of Cumae. [2]

  7. Epinikion - Wikipedia

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    The epinikion was performed not at the games, but at the celebration surrounding the champion's return to his hometown or perhaps at the anniversary of his victory. The odes celebrate runners, pentathletes, wrestlers, boxers, and charioteers; Pindar usually narrates or alludes elaborately to a myth connected to the victor's family or birthplace.

  8. Bacchylides - Wikipedia

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    Soon he was competing with Pindar for commissions from the leading families of Aegina and, in 476 BC, their rivalry seems to have reached the highest levels when Bacchylides composed an ode celebrating Hieron's first victory at the Olympian Games (Ode 5). Pindar celebrated the same victory but used the occasion to advise the tyrant of the need ...

  9. Willem Jacob Verdenius - Wikipedia

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    Pindar's Seventh Olympian Ode. A commentary, 1972 - a new edition published in 1987, see below (with A. H. M. Kessels) A concise bibliography of Greek language and literature, 1979. A commentary on Hesiod Works and days, 1985. Commentaries on Pindar, in 2 vols.: Vol. 1. Commentaries on Olympian 3, 7, 12, 14 (Brill, Mnemosyne Supplement 97, 1987 ...