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'Pindar (Greek: Πίνδαρος, Pindaros; Latin: Pindarus) (ca. 522–443 BC), was an Ancient Greek lyric...

'Pindar (Greek: Πίνδαρος, Pindaros; Latin: Pindarus) (ca. 522–443 BC), was an Ancient Greek lyric poet. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, Pindar is the one whose work is best preserved. Quintilian described him as "by far the greatest of the nine lyric poets, in virtue of his inspired magnificence, the beauty of his thoughts and figures, the rich exuberance of his language and matter, and his rolling flood of eloquence". However, not all the ancients shared Quintilian's enthusiasm. The Athenian comic playwright Eupolis is said to have remarked that the poems of Pindar "are already reduced to silence by the disinclination of the multitude for elegant learning". Pindar's 'elegant learning' has often discouraged modern scholars as well. The discovery in 1896 of some poems by his rival Bacchylides allowed for useful comparisons, however, and it was then realized that some peculiarities of composition, evident in Pindar's Victory Odes, were typical of the genre rather than of the man. From then on, the brilliance of his poetry began to be more widely appreciated by modern scholars and yet there are still idiosyncracies in his style that challenge the casual reader and