How To Use Pindar In A Sentence
- Origin tales: Thoegeny calls Cheiron the offspring of Phillyra; the Gigantomachia and Pherekydes elaborate that Kronos took on the form of a horse to mate with her; Pindar n Pythian 4 later uses this parentage, and implies his Cheiron is married to Charilko -- who is attested in art, shown as entirely human, and with human offspring. The Origins of Centaurs
- Sports books are hardly a new phenomenon - the poet Pindar was writing odes to naked Greek athletes 25 centuries ago.
- Standing, as it were, historically between Mycenae and Athens, and artistically between temple and hippodrome, the Theban Pindar in life was awarded the right to an equal share of first-fruit offer - ings by the Pythian priestess of Delphi, and after death, heroization, his ghost being invited annually to dine with Apollo (Gilbert Norwood, Pindar [1945]). Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- The desinence -ê'ïos has been given an entry of its her? own, with what are actually the definition and examples of the whole word "parthenê'ïos", which in turn does have an entry in Slater's Lexicon to Pindar. Languagehat.com: THE NEW SAPPHO.
- 'Horatian' ode or the complex system of strophe, antistrophe and epode of the 'Pindaric' ode, 131 ff. The Principles of English Versification
- Concerted attacks on Peter Pindar in periodical prose and pamphlet verse began soon after the Lousiad, informed politically by prerevolutionary, metaphysical loyalties and historically by the events of the first Regency crisis, among others. 'Manlius to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s
- This interfluvial ecoregion is bound on the east and across the southwest by the Tocantins River (the Tucurui Reservoir is not considered for historic coverage) and by the Pindare River and São Marcos Gulf in the east. Tocantins-Araguaia-Maranhão moist forests
- He had a ten-year-old daughter Sarah and was a former pupil of Braeburn primary school and Pindar secondary in Eastfield, near Scarborough.
- Whether the black slaves brought to America the okra or found it already existing on the continent is uncertain, but the term gumbo is undoubtedly of African origin, as also is the term mbenda (peanuts or ground-nuts), corrupted into pindar in some of the Southern States. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
- In form most of them are regular 'Horatian' odes, but 'The Bard' and 'The Progress of Poesy' are the best English examples of the genuine Pindaric ode. A History of English Literature
