person
Pindar
The supreme Greek lyric poet, the 'Dircaean swan' no imitator can rival.
Reading notes
- The Odes §4.2 Pindar
The Theban master whose torrential genius no rival can match without an Icarian fall.
- The Odes §4.9 Pindar
Whose Muses, with the others', 'do not lie hidden' beside Homer.
- The Epistles §1.3 Pindaric spring
The supreme Greek lyric poet, the 'Dircaean swan' no imitator can rival.