1 Pindar celebrated that victory in his Ninth Pythian ode.

2 Pindar wrote his elaborate choral odes also in many other genres, but we have only fragments of these.

3 Finally, the fragment from Pindar indicates that Persephone accepts recompense or payment of penalty from some souls.

4 Pindar, the Greek poet wrote in the 5th century BC:"As in the daytime there is no star in the sky warmer and brighter than the sun, likewise there is no competition greater than the Olympic Games."

5 He admired Aeschylus and Pindar; but when some one was commending them, he said that Aeschylus and the Greeks, in describing Apollo and Orpheus, had given no song, or no good one.

6 Heroes like Tantalus and Ixion in Pindar, who betray the gods' trust in them, are sent from the radiance of Olympian feasts to the utter darkness of Hades.

7 PINDAR WONG I would view the last 10 years as being a wonderful grand experiment.

8 The Greek poet Pindar expressed it in the credo: " Become what you are. "

9 Roman scholar Cicero and the Greek poet Pindar both reference the Wheel of Fortune.

10 The poet Pindar read his victory poems at the Olympics , and Herodotus his history.

11 The great poet Pindar wrote poems of praise in memory of the winners of the laurel or wild olive wreath.

12 Such treatment of an old myth is typical not only of Pindar but of his time.

13 The language of Homer and of Virgil and of Pindar and of Ovid had become an inextricable part of his literary imagination and of his consciousness in general.

14 Of the many lyric poets of ancient Greece,[www.Sentencedict.com] two are still admired by readers today: Sappho and Pindar.

15 "Seek not the life of the immortals, but enjoy to the full the resources that are within reach. " – Pindar.

16 Greek culture was climbing toward its classical peak, thanks to natural philosophers (Thales, Parmenides), early political leaders (Solon), engineers (Chersiphron), and poets (Sappho, Pindar).

17 Every building in Thebes was razed except the temples and the house in which the poet Pindar had lived a century before: Alexander loved Pindar's odes.