comment on the praise of Pindaric song not being restricted to the victorious men and boys who were subjects of the poet’s here and now, the way the epic of Homeric poetry is restricted to heroes: the word kleos in Pindar’s praise poetry applies equally to the man of the present and the hero of the past, and what is being praised about the man of the present, such as the athlete, is ideologically parallel to what is being praised about the hero