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    Pindar

    historical figure · 14 works · 24 mentions · 27 anchored passages · author page

    the Boeotian Pindar · the poet · I · my friend (addressed by the poet)

    spoken of as

    2 expressions

    Pindar the Theban1 mention

    Stromata (Greek)

    With reason, then, the Boeotian Pindar too writes:
    book 1

    The Poet“Pindar”1 mention

    Pythian (Greek)

    I am unsinkable, like a cork above the surface of the salt sea.
    chapter 2

    in the texts

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    Theban lyric poet, quoted on discretion in speech.

    It is possible, at any rate, to hear Pindar the Boeotian too, writing:
    book 1
    Pindar the Theban the hyporcheme.
    book 1
    " "Law, the king of all, both mortals and immortals," says Pindar.
    book 1

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Lyric poet whose house Alexander preserved when sacking Thebes, in gratitude for his praise of Alexander's ancestor.

    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.
    oration 2
    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.
    oration 2
    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;
    oration 33

    RepublicClassical · Greek

    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.
    chapter 1
    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?
    chapter 2

    BirdsClassical · Greek

    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.
    birds

    On Moral EndsHellenistic · Latin

    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.
    book 2

    ProtrepticusLate Antiquity · Greek

    Theban poet quoted describing Asclepius's death at Zeus's hand.

    And I will set before you your own poet, the Boeotian Pindar:
    protrepticus

    AntidosisClassical · Greek

    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.
    antidosis

    PythianClassical · Greek

    The first-person poetic voice of the odes, a professional poet from Thebes composing victory songs for Hieron and Arcesilas.

    I am unsinkable, like a cork above the surface of the salt sea.
    chapter 2
    As for me, in my eagerness to praise that man, I hope that I may not be like one who hurls the bronze-cheeked javelin, which I brandish in my hand, outside the course, but that I may make a long cast, and surpass my rivals.
    chapter 1
    For you I come from splendid Thebes bringing this song, a message of the earth-shaking four-horse race in which Hieron with his fine chariot won the victory, and so crowned Ortygia with far-shining garlands—Ortygia, home of Artemis the river-goddess:
    chapter 2

    EuthydemusClassical · Greek

    The lyric poet whose saying about rarity and worth Socrates quotes as he advises Euthydemus to keep his teaching private.

    For it is the rare, Euthydemus, that is precious, while water is cheapest, though best, as Pindar said.
    euthydemus

    PhaedrusClassical · Greek

    Poet whose saying about valuing certain things above business Socrates alludes to.

    Don’t you believe that I consider hearing your conversation with Lysias a greater thing even than business, as Pindar says?
    phaedrus

    TheaetetusClassical · Greek

    Greek lyric poet quoted by Socrates for a phrase describing the philosopher's mind roaming above the sky and beneath the earth.

    his mind, considering all these things petty and of no account, disdains them and is borne in all directions, as Pindar says, both below the earth, and measuring the surface of the earth, and above the sky, studying the stars, and investigating the universal nature of every thing that is, each in its entirety, never lowering itself to anything close at hand.
    theaetetus

    Ad NationesLate Antiquity · Latin

    Greek poet cited confirming that Aesculapius's death was deserved punishment for avarice.

    But indeed Pindar did not conceal his merit:
    book 2

    ApologeticumLate Antiquity · Latin

    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.
    apologeticum

    De CoronaLate Antiquity · Latin

    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.
    de corona