example of the voice of the poet claiming he owes it to his patron to create a song; analysis of the fundamentally religious ideology of Pindar’s praise poetry in which the compensation of the composer for the song is the concluding link in the chain of compensations (seasonally recurring ordeals of athletes for the proto-ordeal and death of a hero, song as the praise for the ordeal of a victorious athlete, poet’s compensation for the composition of the song), rather than a simplistic illustration of Pindar’s 'mercenary Muse'