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    Pindar (/ˈpɪndər/; Greek: Πίνδαρος Pindaros [píndaros]; Latin: Pindarus; c. 518 BC – c. 438 BC) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes. Of the canonical...
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  • officially admitted to. The most important military citadel in central London is Pindar, or the Defence Crisis Management Centre. The bunker is located underneath...
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  • up Pindar or Pindaric in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pindar (Pindaros, c. 518 – 438 BC) was an ancient Greek poet. Pindar may refer to: Pindar, one...
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    The Pindar River is a river located in Uttarakhand, India. The Pindar originates from Pindari Glacier which is located in Bageshwar district of Kumaon...
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  • Peter Pindar may refer to: Sir Peter Pindar, paid Charles I of England for the right to work the royal Alum mines in Yorkshire Sir Peter Pindar, 1st Baronet...
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  • GAC Pindar is a professional sailing team that competes in a variety of sailing competitions including the Extreme Sailing Series, M32's and the World...
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  • The Rev. James A. Pindar (February 2, 1930 – May 8, 1984) was a Catholic priest, educator, and American Republican Party politician. He was a graduate...
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    Nanda Kot. The glacier is about 9 kilometers long and gives rise to the Pindar River which meets the Alakananda at Karnaprayag in the Garhwal district...
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    Sir Paul Pindar (1565–1650) was a merchant and, from 1611 to 1620, was Ambassador of King James I of England to the Ottoman Empire. Born in Wellingborough...
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  • Pindar Baronetcy, of Idinshaw in the County of Chester, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 22 December 1662 for Peter Pindar...
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    1819) was an English satirist, who wrote under the pseudonym of "Peter Pindar". Wolcot was baptised at Dodbrooke, near Kingsbridge, Devon. In the parish...
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    The IMOCA 60 Class yacht Pindar (2) was designed by Juan Kouyoumdjian and launched in 2007 after being assembled by Cookson Boats based in New Zealand...
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    wide variety of pseudonyms, including Will Wizard, Launcelot Langstaff, Pindar Cockloft, and Mustapha Rub-a-Dub Keli Khan. Irving and Paulding discontinued...
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    The Greek lyric poet Pindar composed odes to celebrate victories at all four Panhellenic Games. Of his fourteen Olympian Odes, glorifying victors at the...
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    Pindar means to imply that the Gorgons lived near the Hyperboreans is unclear. Pherecydes tells us that Medusa's face turned men to stone, and Pindar...
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    West 1966, p. 380; Fontenrose, p. 75. Pindar, Pythian 1.15–16. Pindar, Pythian 8.16–17. Pindar, Olympian 4.6–7. Pindar, Pythian 1.15–28; Gantz, p. 49. Gantz...
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  • parents were given for Rhodos. Pindar makes her a daughter of Aphrodite with no father mentioned, although scholia on Pindar add Poseidon as the father;...
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  • Pindar's First Pythian Ode is an ancient Greek epinicion praising Hiero of Syracuse for a victory in the Pythian Games. It was to be sung at a grand musical...
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    Pindar Van Arman is an American artist and roboticist based in Washington, D.C. His art focuses on designing painting robots that explore the differences...
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    Paul Richard Martin Pindar (born 11 April 1959) is an English businessman. He is best known for his 23-year tenure as managing director and chief executive...
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  • Thomas Chaloner (floruit 1584) was an English naturalist. He was the son of John Chaloner, Irish secretary of state during the reign of Queen Elizabeth...
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  • World Archived 2017-04-06 at the Wayback Machine". Scholia ad Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.181 Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.102 ff.; Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius, 4.813...
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    travels. A lost passage of Pindar quoted by Strabo was the earliest traceable reference in this context: "the pillars which Pindar calls the 'gates of Gades'...
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    twelve portions distributed by lot, making each portion wholly honorable. Pindar, in an ode written to be sung at Olympia c. 480 BC, has Heracles sacrificing...
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    life, his shoulder replaced with one of ivory made for him by Hephaestus. Pindar mentioned this tradition in his First Olympian Ode, only to reject it as...
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    Evagoras 15 Pindar, Isthmian Odes 7.47; Apollodorus, 3.12.6 Pausanias, 2.29.6; Scholia ad Pindar, Nemean Odes 13.155; Hesychius s.v. Pindar, Nemean Odes...
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    daughters of Zeus and Eunomia (goddess of good order and lawful conduct), and Pindar says that they are daughters of the strongest god (i.e. Zeus) without naming...
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    Theia. Catullus, Odes 66.44 Pindar, Isthmian Odes 5.1 ff Scholia on Pindar I.5.3., Pindar (1892). Isthmian odes of Pindar, edited with introduction and...
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    John Sigsbee Pindar (November 18, 1835 – June 30, 1907) was an American lawyer and politician who served two non-consecutive terms as a U.S. Representative...
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    ancient sources accept his historical existence; Aristotle is an exception. Pindar calls Orpheus 'the father of songs' and identifies him as a son of the Thracian...
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