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The poet Pindar celebrated the Alcmaeonid's temple in Pythian 7. 8-9 and he also provided details of the third building ( Paean 8.
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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.
* 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
poet and celebrated
Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.
According to the historian Herodotus, the poet threw away his shield to make good his escape from the victorious Athenians then celebrated the occasion in a poem that he later sent to his friend, Melanippus.
No poet has ever presented evil in such stark and tragic terms yet he had an exalted view of Zeus, whom he celebrated with a grand simplicity reminiscent of David's Psalms, and a faith in progress or the healing power of time.
The celebrated poet Petrarch, was a great friend of the family, in particular of Giovanni Colonna and often lived in Rome as a guest of the family.
His poem, Palme, inspired James Merrill's celebrated 1974 poem Lost in Translation, and his cerebral lyricism also influenced the American poet, Edgar Bowers.
** Kokan Shiren, Japanese Rinzai Zen patriarch and celebrated Chinese poet ( b. 1278 )
Another exception was Alberto Franchetti's 1906 opera La figlia di Iorio which was a close rendering of a highly successful play by its librettist, Gabriele D ' Annunzio, a celebrated Italian poet, novelist, and dramatist of the day.
Notable among them the Cuban poet Jose Maria Heredia and his celebrated ode Niagara, in whose honor there are commemorative plaques in both the Canadian and American side of the falls.
Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his Roman Catholic religious faith, Kilmer was also a journalist, literary critic, lecturer, and editor.
She later began an affair with the celebrated Acmeist poet Osip Mandelstam, whose wife, Nadezhda, declared later, in her autobiography that she came to forgive Akhmatova for it in time.
The celebrated horseman and bush poet Lt. Harry " Breaker " Morant and Lt. Peter Handcock were found guilty, sentenced to death, and shot by firing squad at Pietersburg on 27 February 1902.
He resumed his practice at the Bar ; what is arguably his most celebrated case, the successful defence of The Leader against a libel action brought by the poet Patrick Kavanagh, dates from this period.
The Queen's arrival was celebrated by the poet William Dunbar in poems including The Thrissil and the Rois, Gladethe, thoue Queyne of Scottis Regioun, and the song Now Fayre, Fayrest of Every Fayre.
* Montjuïc Cemetery ( Cementiri del Sud-Oest ), a cemetery containing many of Barcelona's rich and celebrated, including Lluís Companys and his predecessor as President of Catalonia Francesc Macià, as well as artist Joan Miró, dancer Carmen Amaya and poet / priest Jacint Verdaguer.
* A collection of Canada's celebrated nature poet, Archibald Lampman, Alcyone, his final set of poetry published posthumously in 1899, highlights both Lampman's apocalyptic and utopian visions of the future.
In 1327, according to the poet, the sight of a woman called Laura in the church of Sainte-Claire d ' Avignon awoke in him a lasting passion, celebrated in the Rime sparse (" Scattered rhymes ").
The Augustan poet Ovid conflates her with another archaic goddess named Carna, whose festival was celebrated on the Kalends of June and for whom he gives the alternative name Cranê or Cranea, a nymph.
The most influential of all was Edward FitzGerald ( 1809 – 83 ), who made Khayyám the most famous poet of the East in the West through his celebrated translation and adaptations of Khayyám's rather small number of quatrains ( rubāʿiyāt ) in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
Philipsburg is notable for being the setting and subject of the poem " Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg " by celebrated Northwest poet Richard Hugo
* Mohammad Reza Shafiei-Kadkani, graduate of the School of Letters and Humanities at FUM, professor of Persian Language and Literature at the University of Tehran, celebrated contemporary poet and literary critic
The author of the poems celebrated him in his verse and educated him in the aristocratic values of the time, yet Cyrnus came to symbolize much about his imperfect world that the poet bitterly resented:
* Dr Isaac Watts, the celebrated ' Father of Hymnology ' whose hymns have been sung worldwide and was also a poet and educationalist.
In 1905, the erection of a monument to the Slovene poet France Prešeren in Ljubljana was celebrated by a large gathering of people singing Hey, Slavs.
By the end of the 16th century, the celebrated English poet and playwright, William Shakespeare, cited the important export and notoriety of the Madeiran Malvasia castes: in Richard III the Duke of Clarence, the brother of King Edward IV selected a death by drowning in a barrel of Madeira.
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