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Pindar's Life by Basil L. Gildersleeve, in Pindar: The Olympian and Pythian Odes; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Pindar, Olympian Odes, I, 1–64; read by William Mullen; Perseus Digital Library Lexicon to Pindar, William J. Slater, De Gruyter 1969: scholarly dictionary for research into Pindar
Most of Pindar's signature characteristics and signature style appear in this poem. Pindar utilizes religion, local mythology, and his poetic genius to create an ode that outlasts the occasion itself. The motif of the ode is harmony: harmony of the lyre and moral harmony of a life formed by justice, liberality, and the pleasure of the gods.
A pamphlet published in London in 1642 states that Pindar saved the life of a felon named "Running Jack" who had been sentenced to death. The prisoner "was found to have been such a notorious Malefactor, that the Bench did condemn him to dy: but hee hath since obtained a Reprieve by the means of Sir Paul Pindar."
The ode begins with a priamel, where the rival distinctions of water and gold are introduced as a foil to the true prize, the celebration of victory in song. [7] Ring-composed, [8] Pindar returns in the final lines to the mutual dependency of victory and poetry, where "song needs deeds to celebrate, and success needs songs to make the areta last". [9]
The ode is compared to a loving-cup (1–10), presented to the bridegroom by the father of the bride. [3] Even as the cup is the pledge of loving wedlock, so is the poet's song an earnest of abiding fame, but Charis, the gracious goddess of the epinician ode, looks with favour, now on one, now on another (10–12). [3]
Olympian 9, 'For Epharmostus of Opus', is an ode by the 5th century BC Greek poet Pindar. [1] Background. Coin of Opus. Aias Oiliades.
Olympian 4, 'For Psaumis of Camarina', is an ode by the 5th century BC Greek poet Pindar. [1] Background. Coin of Camarina, c. 415–405 BC. Camarina on swan.
Olympian 13, 'For Xenophon of Corinth', is an ode by the 5th century BC Greek poet Pindar. [1] Background. Silver stater of Corinth, 478–458 BC. Pegasus.