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Ode 13 of the Bacchylides is a Nemean ode performed to honor the athlete Pytheas of Aegina for winning the pancration event of the Nemean games. Bacchylides begins his ode with the tale of Heracles fighting the Nemean lion, employing the battle to explain why pancration tournaments are now held during the Nemean games. The allusion to Heracles ...
"Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a lyric ode with five stanzas containing 10 lines each. The first stanza begins with the narrator addressing an ancient urn as "Thou still unravished bride of quietness!", initiating a conversation between the poet and the object, which the reader is allowed to observe from a third-person point of view. [8]
William Wordsworth's Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood (1807) and Thomas Gray's The Progress of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode (1757) are both written in the Pindaric style. Gray's The Bard: A Pindaric Ode (1757) is a Pindaric ode where the three-part structure is thrice repeated, yielding a longer poem of nine stanzas.
The epinikion or epinicion (pl.: epinikia or epinicia, Greek ἐπινίκιον, from epi-, "on", + nikê, "victory") is a genre of occasional poetry also known in English as a victory ode. In ancient Greece , the epinikion most often took the form of a choral lyric , commissioned for and performed at the celebration of an athletic victory in ...
Superyachts serve as floating palaces for the world’s elite.These opulent vessels, which are larger than most apartments and cost more than a mansion, are often custom-built to reflect the ...
Greek Ode, for voice and piano (1932) First Chapter of Ecclesiastes (The Preacher), for voice and piano (1932, possibly incomplete) Three Easy Pieces (1. Round in A minor, 2. Duo in G major, 3. Infinite canon in F minor), for piano (1933) Three Songs for voice and piano, (1932–33) Sonata for Clarinet (1933)
Macaulay Culkin had big plans for the beloved Home Alone house!. The former child star, 44, said he considered buying the real home featured in the Christmas classic film when it was recently ...
In the early morning hours of Dec. 26, 1996, Patsy Ramsey called 911 to report her 6-year-old daughter JonBenét missing, and found a rambling ransom note left inside their Boulder, Colorado, home.