Pindar
![Pindar, Roman copy of Greek 5th century BC bust (''[[Naples National Archaeological Museum|Museo Archeologico Nazionale]]'', Naples)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Bust_of_Pindar.jpg)
Pindar was the first Greek poet to reflect on the nature of poetry and on the poet's role. His poetry illustrates the beliefs and values of Archaic Greece at the dawn of the Classical period. Like other poets of the Archaic Age, he has a profound sense of the vicissitudes of life, but he also articulates a passionate faith in what men can achieve by the grace of the gods, most famously expressed in the conclusion to one of his Victory Odes:
Provided by WikipediaCreatures of a day! What is anyone? What is anyone not? A dream of a shadow Is our mortal being. But when there comes to men A gleam of splendour given of heaven, Then rests on them a light of glory And blessed are their days. (''Pythian 8'')
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