Of the various Classical Greek authors who mentioned centaurs, Pindar was the first who describes undoubtedly a combined monster.

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.

This approach to analyzing and classifying metres originates from ancient Greek tragedians and poets such as Homer, Pindar, Hesiod, and Sappho.

This metric system originated in ancient Greek poetry, and was used by poets such as Pindar and Sappho, and by the great tragedians of Athens.

Odes were first developed by poets writing in ancient Greek, such as Pindar, and Latin, such as Horace.

The Vatican Persian cock denoting a sacred and religious vessel acknowledged by and from the Vatican, " a girt one of the loins " of Proverbs 30: 31, the Hebrew zarzir, Arabic sarsar, Greek alektor, French coq, Persian bird, Persian cock or the acknowledged rooster from the Hebrew Torah, the Christian Old Testament, the Holy Scriptures of Job, Isaiah and of the Apostles John, Luke, Matthew and Mark, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ may still further be viewed through " A Dictionary of the Bible " which tells us that " Pindar ( ca.

It appears likely that Sappho's poetry was largely lost through action of the same indiscriminate forces of cultural change that have left us such paltry remains of all nine canonical Greek lyric poets, of whom only Pindar ( whose works alone survive in a manuscript tradition ) and Bacchylides ( our knowledge of whom we owe to a single dramatic papyrus find ) have fared much better.

* 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 )

** 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.

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

Bacchylides had become, almost overnight, among the best represented poets of the canonic nine, with about half as many extant verses as Pindar, adding about a hundred new words to Greek lexicons.

* Barrett, W. S., Greek Lyric, Tragedy, and Textual Criticism: Collected Papers, edited for publication by M. L. West ( Oxford & New York, 2007 ): papers dealing with Bacchylides, Stesichorus, Pindar, and Euripides

* 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.

* 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.

Significant variations on the legend of Oedipus are mentioned in fragments by several ancient Greek poets including Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, Aeschylus and Euripides.

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.

Ancient Greek literary sources — such as Pindar, Aeschylus, Euripides, Plato, and Callimachus — also place Charon on the Acheron.

Pindar, Roman copy of Greek 5th century BC bust ( Naples National Archaeological Museum | Museo Archeologica Nazionale, Naples )

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 ).

* Pindar: A renowned poet, he is referred to by name ( line 939 ) and his elevated style is plagiarized by the young versifier ( see remarks for Hieron I above ).

* 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

According to the accounts given by Pindar and the tragedians, Agamemnon was slain in a bath by his wife alone, a blanket of cloth or a net having first been thrown over him to prevent resistance.

Among these, Pindar was held by many ancient critics to be pre-eminent, but some gave precedence to Alcaeus instead.

A legend preserved in Pindar relates that Apollo and Poseidon took Aeacus as their assistant in building the walls of Troy.

Ian Pindar and Paul Sutton.

* Pindar, Pythia, ix.

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

He attempted to rape Leto near Delphi under the orders of Hera, but was laid low by the arrows of Apollo and / or Artemis, as Pindar recalled in a Pythian ode.

Pindaric odes follow the form and style of Pindar.

Pindar in some fragments speeks for the immortality of the souls, which may spent in Elysion a happy eternity.

The poems of Alcaeus and later Pindar record similar romantic bonds between the members of a given circle.

His rule was eulogized by poets like Simonides of Ceos, Bacchylides and Pindar, who visited his court.

According to Pindar, the decision was made by secret ballot among the Acheans.

The new group played their first gig at The Pindar of Wakefield on 4 October 1982.

He translated Pindar and Aeschylus into German.