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A Pindar Commentary in Progress

Pythian 5.69-72

Greg Nagy

Last updated at March 25, 2020, 1:48 p.m.

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comment on the Hērakleidai ('sons of Herakles') representing the ancestors of the Dorian dynasties who took over the major political centers of the Peloponnesus in the Dark Age