Pindar in the library
The harvest has not read Pindar’s own works yet. What it has read is the library that quotes Pindar: 10 works, 18 citations in all.
cited by
18 citations · from 10 works10 works in the library quote Pindar — 18 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.
by the citing author
The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the chapter that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of Pindar is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.
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Stromata Clement of Alexandria 2 extended 6 citations · 10 passages
book 1 2 passages anchored here · book 2 · book 3 2 passages anchored here · book 4 2 passages anchored here · book 5 3 passages anchored hereExplicitly named: 'It is possible... to hear Pindar the Boeotian too, writing...', followed by direct quotation.
It is possible, at any rate, to hear Pindar the Boeotian too, writing:
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Republic Plato 1 neutral 1 refuted 1 endorsed 3 citations
Cephalus explicitly attributes the saying to Pindar and calls it 'a fine saying and an admirable' one, endorsing it.
For a beautiful saying it is, Socrates, of the poet that when a man lives out his days in justice and piety sweet companion with him, to cheer his heart and nurse his old age, accompanies Hope, who chiefly rules the changeful mind of mortals.
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Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 neutral 1 endorsed 2 citations
Pindar's ode is directly invoked as the reason Alexander spared his house, an explicit endorsement.
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.
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Birds Aristophanes 1 citation
The Poet cites Pindar by name and urges his verses be committed to memory, treating Pindar as a source of poetic legitimacy.
but engrave these verses of Pindar's on your mind.
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Protrepticus Clement of Alexandria 1 citation
Direct verse quotation used as evidence.
"For Zeus, slaying my son Asclepius, is the cause, hurling the flame into his breast.
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The Histories Herodotus 1 endorsed 1 citation
Herodotus explicitly credits Pindar with a poetic statement he endorses as correct, generalizing the custom-relativity anecdote just given.
and it is, I think, rightly said in Pindar 's poem that custom is lord of all.
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Antidosis Isocrates 1 citation
Isocrates uses Pindar's honored poetic praise as an authoritative comparison for his own encomia of Athens.
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.
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Ad Nationes Tertullian 1 citation
Cited to confirm that Aesculapius's death was a deserved punishment.
But indeed Pindar did not conceal his merit:
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Apologeticum Tertullian 1 refuted 1 citation
Cited to illustrate impious poetic treatment of the gods, which Tertullian criticizes.
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.
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De Corona Tertullian 1 neutral 1 citation
Pindar is explicitly named as a literary source, cited neutrally to document mythological tradition.
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.
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