Ol. 11: "Join, Muses, the rejoicing; I can guarantee that there, you will find a people that is hospitable, prosperous, cultured, and warlike." The Muses, being women, favor the healthy and will be attracted to those who are rich, friendly, cultured... and dangerous.
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Fascinating chiastic structure here. Pindar recounts how the family were famous for their hippic victories & for their ability in war, before losing most of their men in battle, and, later, winning again at the Games. A B B A He organizes their story as a cyclical process.pic.twitter.com/BqeuBBw8kF
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Pindar expressed himself through an idiolect, a language of his own creation. Homer's Greek is an artificial, codified literary language, but Pindar not only invented his vocabulary, he would modify & bend syntax sometimes to near complete obscurity.
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