c. 518–438 BCE · lyric poet
Pindar
Πίνδαρος
Known · AttestedNot attested in Alexandria.
The Theban poet of victory odes. Aristophanes of Byzantium edited his poems in seventeen books by genre; the four books of victory odes we read are that arrangement's survivors.
Our device: No portrait of any of these people survives. The emblems are our devices.
On the shelves
- Pindar of Thebes, Odes · c. 498–446 BCE · Survives in large part
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Sources
- R. Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship from the Beginnings to the End of the Hellenistic Age (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968)