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Three of Pindar's poems have Typhon as hundred-headed (as in Hesiod), [16] while apparently a fourth gives him only fifty heads, [17] but a hundred heads for Typhon became standard. [18] A Chalcidian hydria ( c. 540 –530 BC), depicts Typhon as a winged humanoid from the waist up, with two snake tails for legs below . [ 19 ]
In the time of Hesiod, the Fortunate Isles were associated with the concept of Elysium, a utopian location in the Greek underworld thought to be found in the Western ocean on the margin of the known world. [4] [5] The number of the islands would later be reduced to one by the poet Pindar. [5]
Theologians (Theophylact of Ohrid, Euthymios Zigabenos, Nicetas of Thessalonica) wrote commentaries on the Scriptures and classical theological works, philosophers (Eustratius of Nicaea, Michael of Ephesus) commented on Aristotle, while philologists (Eustathius of Thessalonica, John Tzetzes) produced commentaries on Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, and ...
Pindar (/ ˈ p ɪ n d ər /; Ancient Greek: Πίνδαρος Pindaros; Latin: Pindarus; c. 518 BC – c. 438 BC) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes.Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved.
Hesiod (/ ˈ h iː s i ə d / HEE-see-əd or / ˈ h ɛ s i ə d / HEH-see-əd; [3] Ancient Greek: Ἡσίοδος Hēsíodos; fl. c. 700 BC) was an ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.
The original fable appeared in Hesiod's poem Works and Days, a work dating from some seven centuries before the Common Era and thus long before Aesop's traditional dates. It is used to illustrate Hesiod's account of man's fall from the Golden Age of innocence to the corrupted Age of Iron. As an example of its violent and arbitrary character ...
Fragments of Homer and Hesiod represent the earliest Western treatments of poetic theory, followed later by the work of the lyricist Pindar. [5] The term poetics derives from the Ancient Greek ποιητικός poietikos "pertaining to poetry"; also "creative" and "productive". [6]
A tendency to imitate other poets is not peculiar to Bacchylides, however – it was common in ancient poetry, [76] as for example in a poem by Alcaeus (fragment 347), which virtually quotes a passage from Hesiod (Works and Days 582–8). Pindar's Olympian Ode 1 and Bacchylides's Ode 5 differ also in their description of the race – while ...