Pythian 3

Visiting Scholars

CHS Open House: Pindar’s Pythian 3 & 9, with Maria G. Xanthou

We were pleased to welcome back Maria G. Xanthou, University of Leeds, for a discussion on Pindar, which was recorded—you can watch the video here. You can also download the handout with the focus passages: Pindar Pythian 3.101 ff. Pindar Isthmian 8.56 Homer Odyssey 24.58–73 Pindar Pythian 3.100f. Pindar Pythian 6.21–27, Pindar Nemean 3.43–58 Pindar Pythian 3.1–5, 6-62, 63–76, 77f. , Homer Odyssey 1.253–271 Read more

Book Club

Book Club: Pindar

Come, take the Dorian lyre down from its peg, if the splendor of Pisa and of Pherenicus placed your mind under the influence of sweetest thoughts, when that horse ran swiftly beside the Alpheus, not needing to be spurred on in the race, and brought victory to his master, the king of Syracuse who delights in horses. The Hour 25 Book Club will host a discussion on Pindar Pythian 3,… Read more