Victory Odes date from the ancient Olympic Games, when poets such as Pindar composed songs (which is what ‘ode’ means) in honour of winning athletes. Comments about The Eighth Olympic Ode Of Pindar by Henry James Pye. Edit. Justice and likeminded Peace, dispensers of wealth to men, wise Themis' golden daughters. 'we can speak of no greater contest than Olympia' The Greek poet Pindar (c. 518-428 BC) composed victory odes for winners in the ancient Games, including the Olympics. Queen of true Prophecy! From Wikisource ... and Alkimedon by the hill of Kronos a winner in Olympic games. The solemnity of the occasion awoke the intensity of the poet's passion, and the moment of communal worship was the occasion of his vision of human life. There is no comment submitted by members.. Like Simonides and Bacchylides, Pindar wrote elaborate odes in honor of prize-winning athletes for public performance by singers, dancers, and musicians. After covering Sappho a couple weeks ago, I figured I’d move on to another of Greece’s most famous poets, Pindar. Odes of Pindar (Myers)/Olympian Odes/8. Pindar: Olympian Odes. His forty-five victory odes celebrate triumphs in athletic contests at the four great Panhellenic festivals: the Olympic, Pythian (at Delphi), Nemean, and Isthmian games. The first poem of Pindar's I will read is the "First Olympian Ode." We have a number of odes written by Pindar, a 5th-century Theban, for such religious occasions. Fortunately, his work is much better preserved than the poetess of Lesbos, as we have several dozen of his poems. Pindar (c. 518-438 BCE), highly esteemed as lyric poet by the ancients, commemorates in complex verse the achievements of athletes and powerful rulers at the four great Panhellenic festivals -- the Olympic, Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian games -- against a backdrop of divine favor, human failure, heroic legend, and aristocratic Greek ethos. Thrice winner in Olympic games, of citizens beloved, to strangers hospitable, the house in whose praise will I now celebrate happy Corinth, portal of Isthmian Poseidon and nursery of splendid youth. At the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, an Oxford scholar, George Stuart Robertson , composed a Pindaric Ode and recited it at the closing ceremony of the Games in Athens. For therein dwell Order, and her sisters, sure foundation of states. ... And beyond all others can Melesias declare all works on that wise, what method shall advance a man who from the sacred games may win the longed-for glory. Mother of heroic Games! Pindar … ... Thrice winner in Olympic games, of citizens beloved, to strangers hospitable, the house in whose praise will I now celebrate happy Corinth, portal of Isthmian Poseidon and nursery of splendid youth. 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