Pindar's odes
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Pindar's odes are a collection of ancient Greek lyric poems, especially victory songs, renowned for their complex style, mythological allusions, and celebration of athletic triumphs.
All labels observed (14)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pindar’s odes | 14 |
| Pindar's odes canonical | 12 |
| Isthmian Odes | 2 |
| Nemean Odes | 2 |
| Olympian Odes | 2 |
| Pindar's Pythian Odes | 2 |
| Pindar’s Olympian Odes | 2 |
| Pindar’s Pythian Odes | 2 |
| Pythian Odes | 2 |
| Pindar's Odes | 1 |
| Pindar's Olympian Odes | 1 |
| Pindar's writings | 1 |
| Pindar, Pythian Odes | 1 |
| fragments of Pindar | 1 |
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Target entity: Pindar's odes Context triple: [Apollodorus' Bibliotheca, relatedWork, Pindar's odes]
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A.
Homeric Hymns
The Homeric Hymns are a collection of ancient Greek devotional poems celebrating various gods, traditionally attributed to Homer but actually composed by multiple anonymous poets.
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B.
Homeric epics
The Homeric epics are ancient Greek epic poems, chiefly the Iliad and the Odyssey, traditionally attributed to Homer and foundational to Greek literature, mythology, and cultural identity.
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C.
Hesiod's Works and Days
Hesiod's *Works and Days* is an ancient Greek didactic poem that offers moral instruction, agricultural advice, and mythological narratives, including the ages of man and the story of Prometheus and Pandora.
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D.
Anacreon
Anacreon was an ancient Greek lyric poet renowned for his songs celebrating love, wine, and revelry.
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E.
Hesiod
Hesiod was an early ancient Greek poet, often considered a founder of Greek didactic poetry, known for works such as the Theogony and Works and Days that shaped Greek mythology and moral thought.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Pindar's odes Target entity description: Pindar's odes are a collection of ancient Greek lyric poems, especially victory songs, renowned for their complex style, mythological allusions, and celebration of athletic triumphs.
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A.
Homeric Hymns
The Homeric Hymns are a collection of ancient Greek devotional poems celebrating various gods, traditionally attributed to Homer but actually composed by multiple anonymous poets.
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B.
Homeric epics
The Homeric epics are ancient Greek epic poems, chiefly the Iliad and the Odyssey, traditionally attributed to Homer and foundational to Greek literature, mythology, and cultural identity.
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C.
Hesiod's Works and Days
Hesiod's *Works and Days* is an ancient Greek didactic poem that offers moral instruction, agricultural advice, and mythological narratives, including the ages of man and the story of Prometheus and Pandora.
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D.
Anacreon
Anacreon was an ancient Greek lyric poet renowned for his songs celebrating love, wine, and revelry.
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E.
Hesiod
Hesiod was an early ancient Greek poet, often considered a founder of Greek didactic poetry, known for works such as the Theogony and Works and Days that shaped Greek mythology and moral thought.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Greek literature
ⓘ
lyric poetry collection ⓘ |
| associatedDeities |
Apollo
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Zeus ⓘ other Olympian gods ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | major work of Greek lyric canon ⓘ |
| creator | Pindar ⓘ |
| culturalRole |
celebration of civic prestige
ⓘ
commemoration of individual achievement ⓘ |
| genre |
choral lyric
ⓘ
epinician ode ⓘ |
| influenced |
English Pindaric ode tradition
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Renaissance poetry ⓘ Roman lyric poetry ⓘ |
| intendedPerformance |
accompanied by music
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sung by chorus ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| literaryForm | strophe-antistrophe-epode triads ⓘ |
| literaryReputation | renowned for difficulty of interpretation ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | Greek lyric poetry ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
aristocratic values
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athletic victory ⓘ mythological exempla ⓘ praise of athletes ⓘ |
| meter | complex lyric meters ⓘ |
| performanceContext |
Isthmian Games
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Nemean Games ⓘ Olympic Games ⓘ Panhellenic Games ⓘ
surface form:
Panhellenic games
Pythian Games ⓘ |
| philosophicalElement |
reflection on fortune and fate
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reflection on human limits ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin |
Greek Antiquity
ⓘ
surface form:
Ancient Greece
|
| preservation | medieval manuscript tradition ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
complex syntax
ⓘ
dense metaphor ⓘ elaborate metrical structure ⓘ gnomic statements ⓘ mythological allusion ⓘ |
| subcollection |
Pindar's odes
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Isthmian Odes
Pindar's odes self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Nemean Odes
Pindar's odes self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Olympian Odes
Pindar's odes self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Pythian Odes
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| subjectMatter |
athletic contests
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mythological narratives ⓘ praise of patrons ⓘ religious devotion ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 5th century BCE ⓘ |
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