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A Pindar Commentary in Progress

Pythian 8.1-100

Greg Nagy

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

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example of a composition in which the victorious man of the present (Aristomenes) is said by Pindar’s lyric poetry to be repeating the patterns of the ancestors by virtue of repeating the patterns of the heroes