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The MouseionPindarNemean

NemeanΝεμεονῖκαι

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Kind of writing: Lyric poetry
Dialect: Doric
Written: 6th–5th c. BC
Length: 5,736 words analysed
Vocabulary: 50% common words
In the library: 1 Greek text, 1 English translation

The texts

Each is the collection's own file, read unchanged from the Perseus Digital Library or Open Greek and Latin. The description is theirs too.

Greek textPindar. The Odes of Pindar. Sandys, John Edwin, editor. London: William Heinemann; Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1937 (reprint).
English translationPindar. Arnson Svarlien, Diane, translator. Created for the Perseus Project, 1990.

In The Painted Stoa

Entries that quote or point to this work's Greek.

How Athenian potters made pictures that have lasted 2,500 yearsBlack-figure and red-figureThe painted pots of Athens are the largest body of Greek pictures to survive: gods and heroes, athletes and drinkers, weddings, funerals and battles, on thousands of vessels that were made to be used.