Pindar, I, Olympian Odes. Pythian Odes
 Author: Pindar Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 884.01 EAN: 9780674995642 ISBN: 0674995643 Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: 1997-04-15 [... more]
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Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources
"... beyond the dug-up area...": This collection of excerpts from ancient sources concerning athletes, athletic contests, skills, prizes, and the athletic "mystique" is excellent. For it gives a generous overview from different [... more]
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Gone-Away Lake
This was my favorite book as a girl...: I am now a teenager, and I lost my beloved copy of Gone Away Lake, I hope to purchase another one soon. This is a remarkable book. There is no violence, cursing, or crudeness, no non-stop action either but this [... more]
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Complete Poems
"Taking the gates of a new song...": Well...to read Bacchylides (in Robert Fagles' translation) after having read Pindar (in C.M. Bowra's translation--Penguin Classics) is to read (for me) shorter, fresher, clearer poetry. Yet, strangely, in [... more]
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Very Bad Poetry
Harmonious Hog Draw Near!: Great poets have their weak moments, but they tend to produce only the occasional bad line - say, for example, when William Wordsworth, one of England's greatest poets, wrote the unintentionally bawdy "Give me your tool, [... more]
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Haunts of the Black Masseur
water as muse and temptress: Something primordial exists in swimming for those willing to recognize it, perhaps some residue of an ancestral species instinct to the sea, a subliminal memory of submergence in the amniotic sac, or the proffered suspension [... more]
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Carmina Cum Fragmentis: Eleventh Revised Edition
Author: Pindar Author: Bacchylides Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 809 EAN: 9783598711169 Edition: 11 Rev Sub ISBN: 3598711166 Number Of Pages: 172 Publication Date: 2003-12 [... more]
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Penguin Classics Odes
Ian Myles Slater on: Bowra's Pindar, Not Lattimore's: I am here reviewing C. M. Bowra's translation of "The Odes of Pindar" for the Penguin Classics, not Richmond Lattimore's version from the University of Chicago Press, my review of which has [... more]
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Pindar: Victory Odes: Olympians 2, 7 and 11; Nemean 4; ...
Author: Pindar Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 808 EAN: 9780521436366 ISBN: 0521436362 Number Of Pages: 189 Publication Date: 1995-05-26 [... more]
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Pindar, II, Nemean Odes. Isthmian Odes. Fragments
Author: Pindar Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 884.01 EAN: 9780674995345 ISBN: 0674995341 Number Of Pages: 464 Publication Date: 1997-04-15 [... more]
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Pindar and the Cult of Heroes
Author: Bruno Currie Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 884.01 EAN: 9780199277247 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0199277249 Number Of Pages: 512 Publication Date: 2005-10 [... more]
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A Commentary on the Fourth Pythian Ode of Pindar
Author: Bruce Karl Braswell Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 884.01 EAN: 9783110107081 ISBN: 3110107082 Number Of Pages: 447 Publication Date: 1987-11 [... more]
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