Pindar Definition

pĭndər
pronoun

(ca. 522-443 BC) A great Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes.

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noun

Alternative form of pindal.

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Noun

Singular:
Pindar
Plural:
pindars

Origin of Pindar

  • From Ancient Greek Πίνδαρος (Pindaros).

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Pindar Sentence Examples

  • See Pindar, 7th Olympian Ode; Diodorus v.

  • The most famous paeans are those of Bacchylides and Pindar.

  • We can trace obligations to Meleager, Theocritus, Apollonius Rhodius and other Alexandrines, and amongst earlier writers to Homer, Pindar, Aeschylus and others.

  • There were to be no half-measures now; the city was wiped out of existence with the exception of its temples and the house which had been Pindar's.

  • His name does not occur in Homer or Hesiod, but he was known in the time of Ibycus (c. 530 B.C.), and Pindar (522-442 B.C.) speaks of him as " the father of songs."

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