Explore: Nemean Odes (pindar)

of the book of Nemean odes. Pindar's poetic style is very distinctive, even when the peculiarities of the genre are set aside. The odes typically feature

that her cult is related with the cult of Eleusis. In his Seventh Nemean Ode, Pindar refers to her as the maid to or seated beside the Moirai (Fates) and

Pindar's Eighth Nemean Ode is an ancient Greek epinikion celebrating a victory of Deinias of Aegina. The poem's exact occasion is uncertain, but a success

the Nemean Lion, and here, during Antiquity, the Nemean Games were held (ending c. 235 BC) and were celebrated in the eleven Nemean odes of Pindar. In

Evagoras 15 Pindar, Isthmian Odes 7.47; Apollodorus, 3.12.6 Pausanias, 2.29.6; Scholia ad Pindar, Nemean Odes 13.155; Hesychius s.v. Pindar, Nemean Odes 8.22

(Ode 5.16–33) Bacchylides's image of the poet as an eagle winging across the sea was not original – Pindar had already used it earlier (Nemean Odes 5

and Culture, Boydell & Brewer. Pindar, Tenth Nemean Ode. Ringleben, Joachim, "An Interpretation of the 10th Nemean Ode", Ars Disputandi, translated by

version at Harvard University Press. Race, William H. (1997a), Pindar: Nemean Odes. Isthmian Odes. Fragments, Edited and translated by William H. Race. Loeb

University Press, 2021. ISBN 978-0-190-65101-5. Google Books. Pindar, Nemean Odes. Isthmian Odes. Fragments, edited and translated by William H. Race, Loeb

2023. Orphic Hymn 84 to Hestia (Athanassakis & Wolkow, pp. 64–65). Pindar, Nemean Odes 11.1, EN topostext, 2.1 "Witnesses the gods Aglauros, Hestia, Enyo