Sayings of Pindar | Classical Studies

• published: 02 Jul 2014
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This lecture was recorded in early 2014 with older recording equipment. For more recent, higher quality lectures please visit my channel page: https://www.youtube.com/basilgentleman Subscribe http://bit.ly/1rF6ujo Facebook http://on.fb.me/1ysSTl5 Twitter http://bit.ly/11CIWF8 Google+ http://bit.ly/1w1PbzK List of entries from my series Sayings of the Classical World in alphabetical order: A Aeschines, Aeschylus, Aesop, Agasicles, Agathocles, Agathon, Agesilaus II, Agesipolis II, Agis II, Agis III, Agis IV, Alcamenes, Alcibiades, Alexander III, Alexander Severus, Alexander II Zabinas, Alexis, Anacharsis, Anacreon, Anaxagoras, Anaxander, Anaxandridas II, Anaxarchus, Antalcidas, Antigonus I, Antigonus III, Antiochus III, Antiochus VII, Antiochus, Antipater, Antisthenes, Antoninus Pius, Apelles, Appius Claudius Caecus, Apuleius, Aratus, Arcesilaus, Archelaus I, Archias, Archidamus I, Archidamus II, Archidamus III, Archilochus, Archytas, Areus I, Aristides, Aristippus, Ariston, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Artaxerxes I, Artaxerxes II, Ateas, Athenaeus, Augustus, Ausonius B Bias of Priene, Bion of Borysthenes, Brasidas, Brennus, Brutus C Caligula, Calgacus, Callicratidas, Callimachus, Carinus, Caracalla, Cassiodorus, Catiline, Cato the Elder, Catullus, Cicero, Chabrias, Charilus, Chrysippus, Claudian, Claudius, Cleomenes I, Cleomenes, Cotys I, Croesus, Cyrus the Great, Cyrus the Younger D Damindas, Damonidas, Darius I, Demades, Demaratus, Demetrius I the Besieger, Demetrius of Phalerum, Democritus, Demosthenes, Diocletian, Diogenes of Sinope, Dion, Dionysius I of Syracuse, Dionysius II of Syracuse, Dionysius the Phocaean, Diphilus, Domitian E Ecprepes, Elagabalus or Heliogabalus, Empedocles, Ennius, Epaminondas, Epictetus, Epicurus, Euclid Eudamidas I, Euripides, Eurycratidas F Fabius Maximus G Gaius Fabricius Luscinus, Gaius Marius, Gaius Popillius Laenas, Galba, Galen, Gallienus, Gelon, Geta, Glauconides, Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus H Hadrian, Hannibal, Hegesippus, Heraclitus, Herodotus, Hesiod, Hiero I, Hippocratidas, Hipponax, Homer, Horace I Iamblichus, Idanthyrsus, Isocrates, Iphicrates J Julius Caesar, Juvenal L Lamachus, Leon, Leonidas I, Leotychidas I, Leotychidas II, Livy, Longinus, Lucan, Lucian, Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, Lucius Accius, Lucretius, Lucullus, Lycurgus Lysander, Lysimachus M Manius Curius Dentatus, Marcus Manilius, Marcus Aurelius, Mark Anthony, Marhabal, Martial, Memnon of Rhodes, Menander, Mimnermus, Myronides N Namertes, Nero, Nicander O Orontes I, Otho, Ovid P Paedaretus, Parysatis, Panthoedas, Pausanias, Parmenides of Elea, Peisistratus, Pelopidas, Pericles, Persius, Pertinax, Petronius, Phaedrus, Philip II, Pindar, Pittacus, Plato, Plautus, Pleistoanax, Pleistarchus, Phocion, Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, Polybius, Polycratidas, Polydorus, Pompey, Porus, Probus, Propertius, Protagoras, Prudentius, Ptolemy I Soter, Ptolemy, Publilius Syrus, Crassus, Pyrrhus, Pythagoras, Pytheas Q Quintilian, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus, Quintus Curtius Rufus, Quintus Lutatius Catulus S Sallust, Sappho, Semiramis, Sennacherib, Severus, Scilurus, Scipio Africanus, Scipio Africanus the Younger, Seneca the Elder, Seneca the Younger, Sidonius Apollinaris, Simonides, Socrates, Solon, Soos, Sophocles, Subrius Flavus, Sulla T Teleclus, Terence, Teres I, Tertullian, Thales, Thearidas, Themisteas, Themistocles, Theocritus, Theognis, Theophrastus, Theopompus, Thorycion, Thrasyllus, Thucydides, Tiberius, Tibullus, Timotheus, Titus, Trajan V Varro, Vegetius, Vespasian, Virgil, Vitellius, Vitruvius X Xenophanes, Xerxes Z Zeno of Elea, Zeno of Citium, Zeuxidamus, Zeuxis Pindar (c. 522 -- c. 443 BC), was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved. Quintilian wrote, "Of the nine lyric poets, Pindar is by far the greatest, in virtue of his inspired magnificence, the beauty of his thoughts and figures, the rich exuberance of his language and matter, and his rolling flood of eloquence, characteristics which, as Horace rightly held, make him inimitable." His poems however can also seem difficult and even peculiar. The Athenian comic playwright Eupolis once remarked that they "are already reduced to silence by the disinclination of the multitude for elegant learning". Some scholars in the modern age also found his poetry perplexing, at least up until the discovery in 1896 of some poems by his rival Bacchylides, when comparisons of their work showed that many of Pindar's idiosyncrasies are typical of archaic genres rather than of the poet himself. The brilliance of his poetry then began to be more widely appreciated. However his style still challenges the casual reader and he continues to be a much admired though largely unread poet. - Wikipedia