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Browsing named entities in Pindar, Odes (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien). You can also browse the collection for 454 BC or search for 454 BC in all documents.
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Pindar, Pythian (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien),
Pythian 11
For Thrasydaeus of Thebes
Foot Race or Double Foot Race
474 or 454 B. C. (search)
Pythian 11
For Thrasydaeus of Thebes
Foot Race or Double Foot Race
474 or 454 B. C.
The scholia (Inscr. a and b) give both dates.Daughters of Cadmus, Semele dwelling among the Olympians and Ino Leucothea, sharing the chamber of the Nereid sea-nymphs: come, with the mother of Heracles, greatest in birth, to the presence of Melia; come to the sanctuary of golden tripods,the treasure-house which Loxias honored above all
and named the Ismenion, true seat of prophecy. Come, children of Harmonia, where even now he calls the native host of heroines to assemble, so that you may loudly sing of holy Themis and Pytho and the justnavel of the earth, at the edge of evening,
in honor of seven-gated Thebes and the contest at Cirrha, in which Thrasydaeus caused his ancestral hearth to be remembered by flinging over it a third wreathas a victor in the rich fields of Pylades, the friend of Laconian Orestes,
who indeed, when his father was murdered, was taken by his nurse Arsinoe from the strong hands
Pindar, Isthmean (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien),
Isthmian 7
For Strepsiades of Thebes
Pancratium
?454 B. C. (search)
Isthmian 7
For Strepsiades of Thebes
Pancratium
?454 B. C.
In which of the local glories of the past, divinely blessed Thebe, did you most delight your spirit? Was it when you raised to eminence the one seated beside Demeter of the clashing bronze cymbals, flowing-hairedDionysus? Or when you received, as a snow-shower of gold in the middle of the night, the greatest of the gods,
when he stood in the doorway of Amphitryon, and then went in to the wife to beget Heracles? Or did you delight most in the shrewd counsels of Teiresias? Or in the wise horseman Iolaus?Or in the Sown Men, untiring with the spear? Or when you sent Adrastus back from the mighty war-shout, bereft
of countless companions, to Argos, home of horses? Or because you stood upright on its feet the Dorian colony of the men of Lacedaemon, and your descendants,the Aegeids, captured Amyclae according to the Pythian oracles? But since ancient grace sleeps, and mortals are forgetful
of whatever does not reach the highest blo