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Often appears with: trade, markets, and merchants · thebes · the city and urban life · pindar biography · festivals, games, and spectacle · athens
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Myers sketches Pindar’s life—born near Thebes around 522 BCE, traveling for praise, fined for praising Athens, writing for Sicilian princes, living independently, and dying around 443 BCE—then recounts legends about his honeyed speech.
high place among poets, and will pass on to suggest briefly his claims to interest us by reason of his place in the history of human action and human thought. We know very little of Pindar's life. He was born in or about the year B.C. 522, at the village of Kynoskephalai near Thebes. He was thus a citizen of Thebes and seems to have always had his home there. But he travelled among other states, many of which have b…