biography
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| lived:
| (518–438 BC)
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| biography:
| The chief lyric poet of Greece, born near Thebes. He studied in Athens, and became famous as a composer of odes, hymns, and paeans for people in all parts of the Greek world. Although he wrote for all kinds of circumstances, only his Epinikia (Triumphal Odes) have survived entire, four books celebrating the victories won in the Olympian, Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian games. The Pindaric Ode is characterized by the irregularity in the number of feet in the lines, and by the arbitrary arrangement of the rhymes. |
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