Bacchylides's first notable success came sometime after 500 BC with commissions from Athens for the great Delian festival ( Ode 17 ) and from Macedonia for a song to be sung at a symposium for the young prince, Alexander I ( fr.

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

Moreover Bacchylides's line " So now for me too countless paths extend in all directions " has a close resemblance to lines in one of Pindar's Isthmian Odes ( 1. 1 – 2 ), " A thousand ways ... open on every side widespread before me " but, as the date of Pindar's Isthmian Ode is uncertain, it is not clear in this case who was imitating whom.

Pindar's Olympian Ode 1 and Bacchylides's Ode 5 differ also in their description of the race – while Pindar's reference to Pherenicus is slight and general ("... speeding / by Alpheus ' bank, / His lovely limbs ungoaded on the course ...": Olympian I. 20 – 21 ), Bacchylides describes the running of the winner more vividly and in rather more detail – a difference that is characteristic of the two poets:

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 ).

Being drawn from sources compiled long after his death, the details of Bacchylides's life are sketchy and sometimes contradictory.

There was a thriving cult of Apollo on Ceos too, including a temple at Carthaea, a training ground for choruses where, according to Athenaeus, Bacchylides's uncle, Simonides, had been a teacher in his early years.

Whereas however Pindar's ode focuses on the myth of Pelops and Tantalus and demonstrates a stern moral about the need for moderation in personal conduct ( a reflection on Hieron's political excesses ), Bacchylides's ode focuses on the myths of Meleager and Hercules, demonstrating the moral that nobody is fortunate or happy in all things ( possibly a reflection on Hieron's chronic illness ).

Bacchylides's career as a poet probably benefitted from the high reputation of his uncle, Simonides, whose patrons, when Bacchylides was born, already included Hipparchus, tyrant of Athens 527 – 14 BC.

Ceans had participated in the defeat of the Persians at the Battle of Salamis and they could take pride in the fact that an elegy composed by Bacchylides's uncle was chosen by Athens to commemorate the Athenians who fell at the Battle of Marathon.

All that remained of Bacchylides's poetry by 1896, however, were sixty-nine fragments, totalling 107 lines.

Much of Bacchylides's poetry was commissioned by proud and ambitious aristocrats, a dominant force in Greek political and cultural life in the 6th and early part of the 5th centuries, yet such patrons were gradually losing influence in an increasingly democratic Greek world.

The use of gripping and exciting narrative and the immediacy gained from the frequent use of direct speech are thought to be among Bacchylides's best qualities, influencing later poets such as Horace ( who imitated him, according to Pomponius Porphyrion, in Carmen I.

Frederic G. Kenyon, who edited the papyrus poems, took an unsympathetic view of Bacchylides's treatment of myth in general:

Soon he was competing with Pindar for commissions from the leading families of Aegina and, in 476 BC, their rivalry seems to have reached the highest levels when Bacchylides composed an ode celebrating Hieron's first victory at the Olympian Games ( Ode 5 ).

These narrative qualities were modelled largely on the work of Stesichorus, whose lyrical treatment of heroic myth influenced, for instance, Ode 5.

Imagery is employed sparingly but often with impressive and beautiful results, such as in the simile of the eagle in Ode 5 below.

The image of the eagle occurs in Ode 5, which was composed for Hieron of Syracuse in celebration of his Olympic victory with the race-horse Pherenicus in 476 BC.

But irrespective of any scruples about his treatment of myth, Bacchylides is thought to demonstrate in Ode 5 some of his finest work and the description of the eagle's flight, near the beginning of the poem, has been called by one modern scholar " the most impressive passage in his extant poetry.

:::: by which to praise your Hieron's prowess ...( Ode 5. 16 – 33 )

" In fact one modern scholar has observed in Bacchylides a general tendency towards imitation, sometimes approaching the level of quotation: in this case, the eagle simile in Ode 5 may be thought to imitate a passage in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter ( 375 – 83 ), and the countless leaves fluttering in the wind on " the gleaming headlands of Ida ", mentioned later in the ode, recall a passage in Iliad ( 6. 146 – 9 ).

( Ode 5. 37 – 49 )

Such is the case in Hail, bright Cecilia ( The Ode on St Cecilia's Day 1692 ) in which the solo "' Tis Nature's Voice " has the range F < sub > 3 </ sub > to B < sub > 4 </ sub > ( similar to those stage roles cited previously ), whereas, in the duet " Hark each tree " the countertenor soloist sings from E < sub > 4 </ sub > to D < sub > 5 </ sub > ( in the trio " With that sublime celestial lay ".

Horace ( Ode, i. 5 ) and Ovid describes her as red haired.

Camille Desmoulins, himself limited to the role of spectator at the procession of the Estates-General on 5 May 1789, wrote a response to the event: Ode aux Etats Generaux.

The opening theme was the fourth movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Ode to Joy, which was repeated to begin the second round, and again if the champion won the $ 5, 000.

Ode III. 5 Caelo tonantem credidimus Jovem makes explicit identification of Augustus as a new Jove destined to restore in modern Rome the valor of past Roman heroes like Marcus Atilius Regulus, whose story occupies the second half of the poem.

The 2008 show was titled " Boxed in " based on Beehthoven's 5, Moonlight Sonata and Ode to joy.

Clint Black's album " Nothin ' but the Taillights " includes the song " Ode to Chet ," which includes the lines "' Cause I can win her over like Romeo did Juliet, if I can only show her I can almost pick that legato lick like Chet " and " It'll take more than Mel Bay 1, 2, & 3 if I'm ever gonna play like CGP.

The Service of Remembrance in many Commonwealth countries generally includes the sounding of the " Last Post ", followed by the period of silence, followed by the sounding of " The Rouse " ( often mistakenly referred to as " Reveille "), and finished by a recitation of the " Ode of Remembrance ".

The service includes the sounding of " Last Post ", two minutes of silence, the sounding of " Reveille ", the laying of wreaths, and prayers, and ends with a recitation of the " Ode of Remembrance ".

Hear More From ... includes updates and goodies like the Milton Friedman Choir singing " An Ode To Privatization ".

In Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem " Ode to the West Wind ," stanza III includes the line: " Beside a pumice isle in Baiae's bay.

It includes the entirety of Ode 11 ( headed ΩΔΗ ΣΟΛΟΜΩΝΤΟS ), which includes a short section in the middle of the Ode that does not occur in the Harris version of it.

Her repertoire includes original compositions and standards drawn mostly from classic rock, including " Ode to Billie Joe ," " A Taste of Honey ," and " Black Magic Woman.

This includes a short reading by a member of the Returned Services League ( the Returned Services Association in New Zealand ), the laying of Red Poppies on the coffin by all present, the playing of the Last Post, or Taps in the United States, and Reveille and recitation of the Ode.

( Happiness Bastard, like Kerouac's On the Road, was produced on one continuous scroll of paper run through a typewriter, and the sole copy is in the Kirby Doyle Archive in the possession of Tisa Walden which also includes the unpublished Opus Pre American Ode, and other handwritten papers.

This pattern is used in " Ode on Melancholy ", " Ode to a Nightingale " and " Ode on a Grecian Urn ", which further unifies the poems in their structure in addition to their themes.

" In addition, Regiment shows have included the music of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ode to Joy, Spartacus by Aram Khachaturian and the New World Symphony.

His occasional poems during this period include an elegy on Queen Mary in 1695 ; a satirical version of Boileau's Ode sur le prise de Namur ( 1695 ); some lines on William's escape from assassination in 1696 ; and a brief piece called The Secretary.

One consists of formal and partly sacred odes and cantatas of the stiffest character, of which perhaps the Ode a la fortune is the most famous ; the other of brief epigrams, sometimes licentious and always, or almost always, ill-natured.

During the Eastern Orthodox and Greek-Catholic Divine Services the reading of the synaxarion ( in the sense of brief lives of the saints of the day ) will take place after the Sixth Ode of the Canon at Matins or at the Divine Liturgy.