Pindar
historical figure · 10 works · 20 mentions · 21 anchored passages · author page · cited 18 times in 10 works
the Boeotian Pindar · the poet
spoken of as
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Stromata
Theban lyric poet, quoted on discretion in speech.
It is possible, at any rate, to hear Pindar the Boeotian too, writing:
Pindar the Theban the hyporcheme.
" "Law, the king of all, both mortals and immortals," says Pindar.
Orations
Lyric poet whose house Alexander preserved when sacking Thebes, in gratitude for his praise of Alexander's ancestor.
and Pindar both for the brilliance of his nature and because he praised Alexander's own ancestor and namesake, the one surnamed the Philhellene, having composed for him the line, 'O you who bear the name of the blessed sons of Dardanus.
nor would it be fitting for kings to sing the love-songs of Sappho or of Anacreon, but, if any at all, the songs of Stesichorus or of Pindar, should there be any necessity.
Then, I think, coming up to you, they inquire what you wish them to speak about and concerning what — according to Pindar, Ismenus or Melia of the golden distaff or Cadmus;
Republic
The poet quoted by Cephalus on Hope accompanying the just man in old age.
But on him who is conscious of no wrong that he has done a sweet hope ever attends and a goodly to be nurse of his old age, as Pindar too says.
Such a youth would most likely put to himself the question Pindar asks, Is it by justice or by crooked deceit that I the higher tower shall scale and so live my life out in fenced and guarded security?
Birds
The lyric poet Pindar, whose verses the unnamed Poet invokes and urges Pisthetaerus to remember.
but engrave these verses of Pindar's on your mind.
On Moral Ends
Greek lyric poet
But let us survey in our minds not these greatest arts — for lacking which men were by our ancestors called good-for-nothing — but I ask whether you think that — I do not say Homer, Archilochus, Pindar, but Phidias, Polyclitus, Zeuxis directed their arts to pleasure.
Protrepticus
Theban poet quoted describing Asclepius's death at Zeus's hand.
And I will set before you your own poet, the Boeotian Pindar:
Antidosis
Greek poet invoked because Athens rewarded his poetic praise of the city.
It would be even more absurd if, whereas Pindar, the poet, was so highly honored by our forefathers because of a single line of his in which he praises Athens as “the bulwark of Hellas” that he was made”proxenos“and given a present of ten thousand drachmas, I, on the other hand, who have glorified Athens and our ancestors with much ampler and nobler encomiums, should not even be privileged to end my days in peace.
Ad Nationes
Greek poet cited confirming that Aesculapius's death was deserved punishment for avarice.
But indeed Pindar did not conceal his merit:
Apologeticum
Greek lyric poet cited for a poem on Aesculapius's death.
There is too that lyric poet — Pindar I mean — who sings that Aesculapius, for the desert of his avarice, because he practised medicine to men's hurt, was condemned by the thunderbolt.
De Corona
Greek poet cited as a literary source on Hercules and crown traditions.
you have Pindar and Callimachus, who records too that Apollo, after the dragon Delphyne was slain, put on the laurel, in which he was a suppliant—for among the ancients suppliants were crowned.