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Pindar · c. 518 – after 446 BC

Nemean Odes

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The eleven Nemean Odes celebrate victories at the Nemean Games, in honour of Zeus. Many are for athletes of Aegina and so dwell on the Aeacidae, the heroes of that island, Peleus, Telamon and Achilles.

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Text
Greek original with English translation, 11 passages, about 9100 words in English.
Translator
Sir John Sandys (1915)
Edition
Sir John Sandys (ed.), The Odes of Pindar, Loeb Classical Library, London: Heinemann; New York: Putnam, 1915 (Greek text as digitised by Perseus from the 1937 reprint)
Cite as
Pindar, Nemean Odes 1.1 (by ode, line)

Contents · 11 passages

  1. 1.1–72Nemean 1: for Chromius — Ortygia and the infant Heracles830 words
  2. 2.1–25Nemean 2: for Timodemus — the Homeridae and Ajax255 words
  3. 3.1–84Nemean 3: for Aristocleides — the Aeacidae and Cheiron973 words
  4. 4.1–96Nemean 4: for Timasarchus — Peleus and Thetis927 words
  5. 5.1–54Nemean 5: for Pytheas — Peleus and the wife of Acastus700 words
  6. 6.1–69Nemean 6: for Alcimidas — the Bassidae and Achilles731 words
  7. 7.1–105Nemean 7: for Sogenes — Neoptolemus at Delphi1384 words
  8. 8.1–51Nemean 8: for Deinias — Ajax and Odysseus712 words
  9. 9.1–55Nemean 9: for Chromius — Adrastus and the Seven865 words
  10. 10.1–90Nemean 10: for Theaeus — Castor and Polydeuces1228 words
  11. 11.1–48Nemean 11: for Aristagoras — Hestia and Tenedos542 words

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English translation by Sir John Sandys (1915). Original text: Sir John Sandys (ed.), The Odes of Pindar, Loeb Classical Library, London: Heinemann; New York: Putnam, 1915 (Greek text as digitised by Perseus from the 1937 reprint).

Greek text and translation from the Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Perseus Digital Library, Greek text); translation public domain (OCR from the Internet Archive scan). Introductions, summaries and notes © GreekMythology.com.