Bacchylides's Ode 5 includes, in addition to a brief reference to the victory itself, a long mythical episode on a related theme, and a gnomic or philosophical reflection – elements that occur also in Pindar's ode and that seem typical of the victory ode genre.
His latest sole-authored book is Thucydides and Pindar: Historical Narrative and the World of Epinikian Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2004).