Year/Century: 16th century
Language: Greek
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Binding: Vellum
Description: PINDARI OLYMPIA, PYTHIANEMEA, ISTHMIA, Alcaei, Sapphus, Stesichori, Ibyci, Anacreontis, Bacchylidis, Simonidis, Alcmanis nonnulla et aliorum, Caeterorum octo lyricorum carmina. H. Stefh, Grecolatina, Editio II. Acknowledgment precedes interpretation... Radiate bar Henr. Stephanus; initial vellum binding, 1566. 614 pages, 2 1/2 by 5 ", Greek and Latin text, some binding soiling. Thebes-born Pindar (Pindarus; circa 518–438 BC) was an ancient Greek lyric poet. He is the only one of the nine classical Greek lyric poets whose poetry has survived the best. However, his poems can also come across as challenging or even strange. Quintilian stated, "Of the nine lyric poets, Pindar is by far the greatest, in virtue of his inspired magnificence, the beauty of his thoughts and figures, the rich exuberance of his language and matter, and his rolling flood of eloquence, characteristics which, as Horace rightly held, make him inimitable." They "are already reduced to silence by the disinclination of the multitude for elegant learning," as the Athenian comedy dramatist Eupolis famously observed.
Until the discovery of certain poems by his rival Bacchylides in 1896, some modern scholars likewise considered Pindar's poetry puzzling. However, comparing their works revealed that many of Pindar's eccentricities are typical of antique genres rather than of the poet alone. Even though critics like his poetry, the average reader still finds it difficult to understand, and the public rarely reads any of his works. The first Greek poet to consider the nature of poetry and the poet's job was Pindar. His poetry serves as an example of Archaic Greece's values and ideas at the start of the classical era.
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