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Pindar (/ ˈ p ɪ n d ər /; Ancient Greek: Πίνδαρος Pindaros; Latin: Pindarus; c. 518 BC – c. 438 BC) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes.Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved.
Pindar is a small town in the Mid West Region of Western Australia. It is located about 30 km east of Mullewa in the local government area of the City of Greater Geraldton . In 1894, the Northern Railway from Geraldton to Mullewa was opened, and four year later was extended to Cue .
Pindar (Pindaros, c. 518 – 438 BC) was an ancient Greek poet. Pindar may refer to: Pindar, one of the Military citadels under London, named after the poet; Pindar as another name for peanut; Pindar Group, former large printing company, based in Eastfield, North Yorkshire; Pindar River, in India, which emerges from Pindari Glacier; 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 Pindar River is a river located in Uttarakhand, India. The Pindar originates from Pindari Glacier which is located in Bageshwar district of Kumaon region in Uttarakhand. [ 1 ] The source of this river, the Pindar glacier is located at an altitude of 3,820 m (12,530 ft).
The term Pindar may derive from pinda, [12] an intoxicating drink. [13] It is a Marathi word that possibly connotes a "bundle of grass" or "who takes". [2] They are also referred to as Bidaris in some historic texts, [14] indicating that they originally came from the Bidar district in central India.
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]
The term is derived from the name of a Greek archaic poet, Pindar, but is based on a misconception since Pindar's odes were in fact very formal, obeying a triadic structure, in which the form of the first stanza (strophe) was repeated in the second stanza (antistrophe), followed by a third stanza (epode) that introduced variations but whose ...