Pindar’s poetry borrowed certain fundamental characteristics from the cultural traditions of his native Boeotia, a region that remained rather at the margins of political and economic trends of the Archaic ( c. Such a background would have given Pindar a ready entrée into aristocratic circles in other Greek cities. The family possessed a town house in Thebes (to be spared by express command of Alexander the Great in the general destruction of that city by the Macedonians in 335 bc). His parents, Daiphantus and Cleodice, survive only as names his uncle Scopelinus, a skilled aulos player, doubtless helped with Pindar’s early musical training. Pindar was of noble birth, possibly belonging to a Spartan family, the Aegeids, though the evidence for this is inconclusive. 438, Argos), the greatest lyric poet of ancient Greece and the master of epinicia, choral odes celebrating victories achieved in the Pythian, Olympic, Isthmian, and Nemean games. Pindar, Greek Pindaros, Latin Pindarus, (born probably 518 bc, Cynoscephalae, Boeotia, Greece-died after 446, probably c. Hear a reading of ancient Greek poet Pindar's first Olympic ode, commissioned by Sicilian prince Hiero See all videos for this article

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