Author: Marion Mills Miller

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-02

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 9781333112035

Excerpt from The Greek Calssics, Vol. 3: Didactic and Lyric Poetry Thebes, the city-state of Pindar, was on what men call the wrong side - the unsuccessful side - the medo-persian side; and his life was shadowed by the troubles that foreran the great duel between Athens and Sparta, - the Doric War or the Attic War, as it was variously called. He rose to Pan Hellenism on the wings of song, it is true; but there are up to-date critics that would liken him rather to an aeroplane, and think of the buzzing of the motor rather than the grace of the ight. His canton, Bcnotia, was, is still, proverbial for slowness of wit; and, whereas Pindar was once cited as an. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."