The epinikion or epinicion (pl.: epinikia or epinicia, Greek ἐπινίκιον, from epi-, "on", + nikê, "victory") is a genre of occasional poetry also known...
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Bysshe Shelley Gary Soto George Sterling Allen Tate William Wordsworth Epinikion Milton, John (1966). Bush, Douglas (ed.). Milton: Poetical Works. Oxford:...
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was hailed as the "best of all the odes" by Lucian. Pindar composed the epinikion in honour of his then patron Hieron I, tyrant of Syracuse, whose horse...
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interferes in the war. The earliest surviving of the Greek poets Pindar's epinikion (Pythian ode 10) is written. Amyntas I, king of Macedonia (b. c. 540 BC)...
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Olympics portal Sport of athletics portal Archaeological Museum of Olympia Epinikion Athletes and athletics in ancient Greek art Ludi, the Roman games influenced...
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their couches and passed the word along to form a victory procession [epinikion komon] in honor of Dionysius. (5) Promptly, many torches were gathered...
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Diagoras of Rhodes Athletes' Stories by Perseus Project The Extant Odes of Pindar By Pindar Page 48 ISBN 1-4264-4355-2; Pindar's epinikion to Diagoras...
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plates and captions. Bacchylides, Dithyrambs (470 B.C); xx. 2 Bacchylides, Epinikion; ix. 23 Pitman 2003, pp. 9–10, 14–15. Pitman 2003, pp. 9–11, 14–15. Pitman...
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horse, this enables comparison of their respective approaches to the epinikion or victory ode: Bacchylides "enters thoroughly into the excitement of...
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Pindar's Eighth Nemean Ode is an ancient Greek epinikion celebrating a victory of Deinias of Aegina. The poem's exact occasion is uncertain, but a success...
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party or symposium (Skolion) Song about victory in an athletic contest (Epinikion) Alcman was a 7th-century BCE poet who represents the earliest Alexandrian...
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was rediscovered in 1953. Pindar honoured Ergoteles with the following Epinikion hymn: Daughter of Eleutherian Jove, protecting Fortune, to thy power I...
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dithyramb, nomos, adonidia, iobakchos, and hyporcheme; for humans—encomion, epinikion, skolion, erotica, epithalamia, hymenaios, sillos, threnos, and epikedeion;...
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champion boxer. Telesarchus commissioned Pindar to write a victory ode, or epinikion, celebrating his son's athletic wins at both the Nemean and the Isthmian...
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Greek volumes, among them the first Greek book printed in Rome, Pindar's Epinikion ("Victory Odes"). He also instituted the Greek College of the Quirinal [el]...
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interferes in the war. The earliest surviving of the Greek poets Pindar's epinikion (Pythian ode 10) is written. Artybius ends the rebellion in Cyprus. The...
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Theresianum. He retired in 1824. Unsere Sprache. 1784 Die Könige. 1787 Epinikion Herrn Johann August Starck. 1790 (Digitalisat in der Digitalen Bibliothek...
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Greek and Latin verses. The first Latin verse, Nimium Cervisi, was an epinikion, a victory ode sung after the annual steeplechase run on St. Simon and...
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Funeral Games ..." Cambell cites P.Oxy.2637 and finds also a pindaric/epinikion tone in a quote from Porphyry (comment. in Ptolem. harmon. iv):"with the...
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piano (1932) Op.14 Fantasia Overture for Organ in D minor (1902) Op.28 Epinikion "Song of Victory" (1907) Op.37 Elegiac Rhapsody on an Old Church Melody...
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