Pindar's Odes, blending beauty of poetic form and profundity of thought, are one of the wonders of Ancient Greece.

Pindar's Odes, blending beauty of poetic form and profundity of
thought, are one of the wonders of Ancient Greece. Composed in
the first instance to commemorate athletics victories, they fan
out like a peacock's tail to illuminate with brilliant subtlety
and imagination the human condition in general, and how our
moments of heroic achievement are inevitably tempered by our
mortal frailties. This edition aims to make for the first time a
selection of these wonderful, but complex, poems accessible and
enjoyable not only to scholars and advanced students...