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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-05 - Publisher: JHU Press
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Language: en
Pages: 381
Pages: 381
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-28 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 282
Pages: 282
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-04-15 - Publisher: BRILL
Pindar’s Pythian Twelve is the only choral lyric epinicion in our possession composed for the winner of a non-athletic competition. Often regarded as an ode o
Language: en
Pages: 326
Pages: 326
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-03-07 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
This new translation of Pindar's songs for victorious athletes marries philological rigour with poetic sensibility in order to represent the beauty of his langu
Language: en
Pages: 420
Pages: 420
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-10-24 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
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