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The Athenian comic playwright Eupolis is said to have remarked that the poems of Pindar "are already reduced to silence by the disinclination of the...
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An index of poems by the Greek poet Pindar. POEMS BY PINDAR: For Asopichos of Orchomenos, Winner in the Boys' Short Foot-Race · For Midas of Akragas,
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Complete text of the poem by Pindar. by: Pindar (c. 522 B.C - 438 B.C.) Find articles on Pindar...
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Of all the writers of "Old Comedy", only one remains. Lost forever are the works of Chionides, Magnes, Ecphantides, Cratinus, Crates, and Eupolis. All the extant comedies of the fifth century B.C. belong to one man--Aristophanes. By the time Aristophanes began to write his comedies, Aristophanes' first two comedies,
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Pindar (Greek poet), Poetry, Britannica Online Encyclopedia, The figure of the poet assumed a new role in the 6th and 5th centuries bc under the influence...
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Writing in ancient Rome, Horace declared Pindar one of a kind; to copy his effects, Horace continued (Odes, 2.4), would be like trying to imitate a flood. Around 1629, Ben Jonson composed the “Cary-Morison Ode,” the first English poem to imitate Pindar’s complex but regular three-part form.
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I / The light foot hears you and the brightness begins / god-step at the margins of thought,
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Pindar, Pythian 4; Steven J. Willett, Ed. poem : line Pythian 4. Pindar. Steven J. Willett. 2001.
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A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar by Robert Duncan.
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Towards the end of the poem, Pindar speaks of “the many swift arrows” he has in his quiver that “speak to those who have understanding.” Rather than a symbol of aggression, the bow is the symbol of the communicative power of the poem that speeds its thought out to those who have ears for it,
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