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Category:	Ancient Literature Ancient Music
Name:	Pindar of Thebes
Birth Year:	522 BCE
Death Year:	446 BCE
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Biography, Lectures, and Research Links:	Biography Blog Pindar of Thebes SEARCH NOW: by title by author Pindar, the great lyric poet of ancient Greece, was born at Cynoscephalae, in 522 B.C. He was the son of Daiphantus and Cleodice. The traditions of his family have left their impress on his poetry, and are not without importance for a correct estimate of his relation to his contemporaries. The clan of the Aegidae - tracing their line from the hero Aegeus - belonged to the Cadmean element of Thebes, i.e. to the elder nobility whose supposed date went back to the days of the founder Cadmus. Pindar is to be conceived, then, as standing within the circle of those families for whom the heroic myths were domestic records. He had a personal link with the memories which everywhere were most cherished by Dorians, no less than with those which appealed to men of Cadmean or of Achaean stock. And the wide ramifications of the Aegidae throughout Hellas rendered it peculiarly fitting that a member of that illustrious clan should celebrate the glories of many cities in verse which was truly Panhellenic. Pindar is said to have received lessons in flute-playing from one Scopelinus at Thebes, and afterwards to have studied at Athens under the musicians Apollodorus (or Agathocles) and Lasus of Hermione. Several passages in Pindar's extant odes glance at the long technical development of Greek lyric poetry before his time, and at the various elements of art which the lyrist was required to temper into a harmonious whole. The facts that stand out from these meagre traditions are that Pindar was precocious and laborious. Preparatory labour of a somewhat severe and complex kind was, indeed, indispensable for the Greek lyric poet of that age. Pindar's wife's name was Megacleia, and he had a son named Daiphantus and two daughters, Eumetis and Protomache. He is said to have died at Argos, at the age of seventy-nine, in 443 B.C. [This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and uses material adapted in whole or in part from the Wikipedia article on Pindar of Thebes.] The Great Books: Pindar of Thebes Please browse our Amazon list of titles about Pindar of Thebes. For rare and hard to find works we recommend our Alibris list of titles about Pindar of Thebes. Post Comments, Questions or Suggestions! This database is maintained by Malaspina Great Books.
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