TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pindar
AU  - Bowra, C.M., transl.
TI  - The odes of Pindar
T2  - (Penguin classics)
SN  - 014044209X
AV  - PA4275.E5 B6 
PY  - 1969///
CY  - Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England
PB  - Penguin
KW  - Pindar
KW  - FAST
KW  - Laudatory poetry, Greek
KW  - Olympic games (Ancient)
KW  - Athletics
KW  - Mythology, Greek
KW  - Games
N1  - Translated, with an introduction, by C.M. Bowra
N2  - Arguably the greatest Greek lyric poet, Pindar (518-438 B.C.) was a controversial figure in fifth-century Greece--a conservative boiotian aristocrat who studied in Athens and a writer on physical prowess whose interest in teh Games was largely philosophical.  Pindar's Epinician Odes--choral songs extolling victories in the Games at Olympia, Delphi, Nemea and Korinth--cover the whole spectrum of the Greek moral order, from earthly competition to fate and mythology.  But in C.M. Bowra's clear translation his one central image stands out--the succesful athlete transformed and transfigured by the power of the gods.'
ER  -