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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Published: 1869
Superior document: Pindarʹs Siegesgesänge mit Prolegomenis über Pindarische Kolometrie und Textkritik 1
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Published: 1944
Superior document: Olimpicas 1
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Published: 2004
Publisher: ΕΛ.ΤΑ. / EL.TA.
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Published: 1944
Superior document: Olimpicas 2
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Published: 1968
Superior document: Pindar : Die isthmischen Gedichte 1
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Published: 1969
Superior document: Pindar : Die isthmischen Gedichte 2
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Published: 1978
Superior document: The Loeb classical library 56
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Published: 1935
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Published: 1866
Superior document: Poetae lyrici Graeci 1