Pindar
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Pindar (or Pindarus, Greek: ) (probably born 522 BC in Cynoscephalae, a village in Boeotia; died 443 BC in Argos), was a Greek lyric poet.
Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, Pindar is the one whose work is best preserved, and some critics since antiquity have regarded him as the greatest.
Pindar was born at Cynoscephalae, a village in Boeotia. He was the son of Daiphantus and Cleodice. Pindar was married to Megacleia. They had two daughters, Eumetis and Protomache, and a...
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