** Aristophanes of Byzantium, Greek scholar, critic and grammarian, particularly renowned for his work in Homeric scholarship, but also for work on other classical authors such as Pindar and Hesiod.

Plutarch is the only ancient source for this account and yet it is considered credible on the basis of some literary evidence ( Pindar wrote a paean celebrating Ceos, in which he says on behalf of the island " I am renowned for my athletic achievements among Greeks " 4, epode 1, a circumstance that suggests that Bacchylides himself was unavailable at the time.

* Aristophanes of Byzantium, Greek scholar, critic and grammarian, particularly renowned for his work in Homeric scholarship, but also for work on other classical authors such as Pindar and Hesiod.

* Pindar: A renowned lyrical poet, he is quoted in praise of Athens ( lines 1323, 1329 ).

Aristophanes ( Greek: ) of Byzantium ( c. 257 BC – c. 185 – 180 BC ) was a Greek scholar, critic and grammarian, particularly renowned for his work in Homeric scholarship, but also for work on other classical authors such as Pindar and Hesiod.

The poet Pindar celebrated the Alcmaeonid's temple in Pythian 7. 8-9 and he also provided details of the third building ( Paean 8.

The artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres painted a scene showing Ictinus together with the lyric poet Pindar.

The ancient Greek lyric poet Pindar records the victories of several athletes in his Victory Odes, and two inscribed stelae recently excavated from the Lykaian hippodrome provide information about the events, participants, and winners at the games.

* 474 BC: Greek poet Pindar moves to Thebes.

* 443 BC — death of Pindar, Greek poet

* 522 BC — Pindar, Greek poet

* 443 BC – Pindar, Greek poet ( b. c. 522 BC )

* 474 Pindar, Greek poet moves to Thebes from court at Syracuse

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. 20 – 21 ).

The Isles of the Blessed would be reduced to a single island by the Thebean poet Pindar, describing it as having shady parks, with residents indulging their athletic and musical pastimes.

The ruler of Elysium varies from author to author: Pindar and Hesiod name Cronus as the ruler, while the poet Homer in the Odyssey describes fair-haired Rhadamanthus dwelling there.

* The Greek poet Pindar visits Sicily and is made welcome at the courts of Theron of Acragas and Hieron I of Syracuse.

* The Greek poet Pindar moves to Thebes after two years at the Sicilian Court of Hiero I of Syracuse.

* Pindar, Greek poet ( b. 522 BC )

According to the Odes of the poet Pindar, Heracles then founded the Olympic Games:

Pindar is the first Greek poet to reflect on the nature of poetry and on the poet's role.

However, the poet Pindar did praise the courage of Herodotos of Thebes for driving his own chariot.

* Aetna: A Sicilian city founded by the Greek tyrant Hieron I, it is fancifully mentioned by the young poet ( line 926 ) while he addresses Pisthetaerus in the manner of the illustrious bard Pindar addressing Hieron ( Pindar fragment 94 ).

* John Wolcot ( 1738 – 1819 ), poet and satirist who wrote under the name of " Peter Pindar ", was born here.

According to ancient sources such as Plutarch and Pausanias, she came from Tanagra in Boeotia, where she was a teacher and rival to the better-known Theban poet Pindar.

The name Pindar is taken from the ancient Greek poet, whose house alone was left standing after his city was razed.

* Pindar: The great lyric poet of Boeotia is not mentioned here by name but one of his famous verses is absurdly quoted out of context in line 308

This is a euphemism replacing an earlier ' Inhospitable Sea ', Pontos Axeinos, first attested in Pindar ( early fifth century BCE ,~ 475 BC ).

The painting is known as Pindar and Ictinus and is exhibited at the National Gallery, London.

He has often been compared unfavourably with his contemporary, Pindar, as " a kind of Boccherini to Pindar's Haydn ", yet the differences in their styles doesn't allow for easy comparison and " to blame Bacchylides for not being Pindar is as childish a judgement as to condemn ... Marvel for missing the grandeur of Milton.

There is an ancient tradition, upheld for example by Eustathius and Thomas Magister, that he was younger than Pindar and some modern scholars have endorsed it, such as Jebb, who assigns his birth to around 507 BC, whereas Bowra, for example, opted for a much earlier date, around 524 – 1 BC.

The tyrant's apparent preference for Bacchylides over Pindar on this occasion might have been partly due to the Cean poet's simpler language and not just to his less moralizing posture, and yet it is also possible that Bacchylides and his uncle were simply better suited to palace politics than was their more high-minded rival.

Bacchylides has often been compared unflatteringly with Pindar, as for example by the French critic, Henri Weil: " There is no doubt that he fails of the elevation, and also of the depth, of Pindar.

It is possible in that case that Bacchylides's image of himself as an eagle in Ode 5 was a retort to Pindar.

Ultimately, however, Bacchylides and Pindar share many of the same goals and techniques – the difference is largely one of temperament:

Pindar says that he is the right-hand man of Cronus ( now ruling Elysium ) and was the sole judge of the dead.

Pindar employed the quest for the Golden Fleece in his Fourth Pythian Ode ( written in 462 BC ), though the fleece itself is not in the foreground ; when Aeetes challenges Jason to yoke the fire-breathing bulls, the fleece is the prize: " Let the King do this, the captain of the ship!

His birthplace is given as " the banks of the Cephissus " by Pindar or Hyria in Boeotia by the Megalai Ehoiai, but his later residence was Taenarum in Laconia.

However, Pindar scholiasts are generally considered unreliable and there is no reason to accept their account.

He is known to have written on Greek lyric poets, notably Bacchylides and Pindar, and on drama ; the better part of the Pindar and Sophocles scholia originated with Didymus.

At scholia to Pindar, Pythia 4. 252 yet another form — Enarea ( or )— is found .</ ref > Her children were Cretheus, Sisyphus, Athamas, Salmoneus, Deion, Magnes, Perieres, Canace, Alcyone, Peisidice, Calyce, and Perimede.

78, Pan is associated with a mother goddess, perhaps Rhea or Cybele ; Pindar refers to virgins worshipping Cybele and Pan near the poet's house in Boeotia.

Quintilian wrote, " Of the nine lyric poets, Pindar is by far the greatest, in virtue of his inspired magnificence, the beauty of his thoughts and figures, the rich exuberance of his language and matter, and his rolling flood of eloquence, characteristics which, as Horace rightly held, make him inimitable.