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Often appears with: tyranny and despotism · thebes and ismenian shrine · the city and urban life · orestes · opposition to tyranny and envy · justice as a virtue
Usually: narrative (1) · injustice endured (1) · indignation (1) · reverence (1)
“O Apollo, sweet is the end when men attain thereto, and the beginning availed more when it is speeded of a god.” Pindar, The Extant Odes of Pindar · observation
Pindar addresses the mythic and civic patrons of Thebes and the Ismenian shrine, calls on Semele and Ino Leukothea, recounts Orestes’ tragic cycle, and then returns to praise Thrasydaios and his family’s modest, durable excellence.
to be that Thorax, who engaged Pindar to write it for Hippokleas, and perhaps Hippokleas himself, belonged to the family of the Aleuadai, who were descended through Herakles from Perseus. This ode is the earliest entire poem of Pindar's which survives. He wrote it when he was twenty years old. The simplicity of the style and manner of composition are significant of this. But there can scarcely be said to be traces h…