Finch also skillfully employed the Pindaric ode, exploring complex and irregular structures and rhyme schemes.
Myers published poetry in The Puritans (1869), translated the Odes of Pindar (1874), followed in 1877 by a volume entitled Poems.
Of his numerous other works the most important are The Theatre of the Greeks; The History of the Literature of ancient Greece (a translation and completion of Otfried Müller's unfinished work); editions of the Odes of Pindar and the Antigone of Sophocles; a Hebrew, a Greek and a Latin grammar.
Pindar | The frontage of Paul Pindar's house on Bishopgate is preserved in the Victoria and Albert Museum | Paul Pindar |
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.
Pindar himself has attracted criticism for complaining about being called a 'fat cat', despite receiving a £770,000 per annum salary and driving around in an Aston Martin DB9.
The Amazons were so closely associated with this sanctuary that, according to Pausanias' remark, Pindar erroneously credited them, and not Coresus and Ephesus, with having founded it.
He has also proposed reconstructions of ancient Greek music, and has prepared, on historical-theoretic principles, settings for musical performance of Homer, Sappho, Pindar, and the Persai (The Persians) of Aeschylus.
He wrote a Greek grammar, a metrical translation of Pindar, and an account of Greece (L'état actuel de la Grece in 1833).
According to the scholiast on Pindar (Ol. xiii. 56), the name was derived from the fertile marsh (elos) near Marathon, where Athena had a sanctuary ; or from Hellotia, one of the daughters of Timander, who fled into the temple of Athena when Corinth was burnt down by the Dorians, and was destroyed in the temple with her sister Eurytione.
In 1906 Vilhelm Ekelund, a major poet of the next generation, published a paeanic poem hailing him as the like of Pindar, the bard of his province and a poetic forerunner.
Born in Wellingborough and educated at Wellingborough School Pindar entered trade as the apprentice to an Italian merchant in London.
Peter Pindar, a pen name of John Wolcot (1738–1819), satirist, born in Dodbrooke in Devon
His latest sole-authored book is Thucydides and Pindar: Historical Narrative and the World of Epinikian Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2004).