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Pindar



Pindar (518–438 B.C.), ancient Greek lyric poet, inventor of the Pindaric ode, a poetic form in which complex rhythms in a series of stanzas hailed the victors in national athletic contests such as the Olympics. His odes were actually sung by a choir. The Pindaric ode influenced later English poetic forms developed by poets such as John Dryden and Thomas Gray.



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