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Pindar · c. 518 – after 446 BC

Pythian Odes

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The twelve Pythian Odes celebrate victories at the Pythian Games at Delphi, in honour of Apollo. They include the longest ode Pindar wrote, Pythian 4, which tells the voyage of the Argonauts, and Pythian 3 on Asclepius.

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Text
Greek original with English translation, 12 passages, about 13700 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, Pythian Odes 1.1 (by ode, line)

Contents · 12 passages

  1. 1.1–100Pythian 1: for Hieron — the golden lyre and Aetna1376 words
  2. 2.1–96Pythian 2: for Hieron — Ixion1233 words
  3. 3.1–115Pythian 3: for Hieron — Asclepius and Coronis1430 words
  4. 4.1–142Pythian 4: for Arcesilas — Medea's prophecy and Jason at Iolcus1824 words
  5. 4.143–299Pythian 4: for Arcesilas — the Argonauts and the golden fleece2038 words
  6. 5.1–125Pythian 5: for Arcesilas — the Battiads and the colonists of Cyrene1048 words
  7. 6.1–50Pythian 6: for Xenocrates — Thrasybulus and Antilochus432 words
  8. 7.1–8.100Pythians 7-8: the Alcmaeonidae of Athens; Aristomenes and Alcmaeon1083 words
  9. 9.1–125Pythian 9: for Telesicrates — Cyrene and Apollo1463 words
  10. 10.1–72Pythian 10: for Hippocleas — Perseus and the Hyperboreans745 words
  11. 11.1–64Pythian 11: for Thrasydaeus — Orestes and Agamemnon700 words
  12. 12.1–32Pythian 12: for Midas — Perseus, Medusa and the flute362 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.