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A Pindar Commentary in Progress

Pythian 7.1-21

Greg Nagy

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

Read in Context

comment on the subject of praise in Pindar’s composition being the same figure (Megakles of the Alkmaionidai) as the one whose sēma ('tomb') is marked by an epigram by Simonides (EG 75)