Pindar famous poems

          Pindar ode.

          Bust of Pindar.

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          6. Marble, Roman copy after a Greek original of the fifth century B.C.E.in the Palazzo Nuovo, Rome, Italy, first floor, Hall of the Philosophers.

          Pindar (or Pindarus) (probably * 522 B.C.E. in Cynoscephalae; † 443 B.C.E. in Argos), was one of the canonical nine poets of ancient Greece who is considered, almost without dispute, to be the single greatest lyric poet of all Greek literature.

          Although critics of antiquity report that Pindar was a versatile poet who mastered a wide range of genres, only his odes have survived into the present-day. Although Pindar was influenced by earlier lyric poets, Stesichorus in particular, he is now considered by many to be the founder of the ode as a poetic form.

          His influence on the development of later ancient lyric poetry, well into the Latin era, is tremendous.

          It is a testament to his triumphant skill as a poet that, although only a tiny fraction of his works have survived, what works remain are considered to be amon