1542 PINDAR Odes IN GREEK Classic Poetry OLYMPIC Games FINE RENAISSANCE BINDING
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[Early Printing - Greek Typography] [Greek Classics] [Lyric Poetry - Ancient Greece] [Demetrius Triclinius] [History of Sport - Panhellenic Games - Olympian, Pythian, Isthmian & Nemean] Printed in Frankfurt by Peter Brubach, 1542. Text in the original ancient Greek. Four parts in one volume, each with its own title-page, but with continuous foliation. This VERY SCARCE AND BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED EDITION of Pindar's Odes is based on the celebrated 1515 edition printed in Rome by Zacharias Kallierges, with variant readings from the 1513 Aldus' Editio Princeps given in the printed marginalia (" Copie de l'édition de Calliergi, enrichie de quelques variantes tirées de l'édition d'Alde. " - Brunet). Includes extensive scholia by Demetrius Triclinius, a 14th-century Byzantine scholar, a native of Thessalonica. Like in the 1515 Kallierges edition, several pages of our edition are printed in red and black, with some of the woodcut decorative headpieces and initials printed in red achieving a very elegant typographical layout. Pindar (Greek: � ίνδαρος; Latin: Pindarus) (518 BC, Cynoscephalae, Boeotia - ca. 440 BC, Argos), was the greatest lyric poet of ancient Greece and the master of epinicia, or choral odes. According to Quintilian, a Roman rhetorician of 1st century AD, " Of the nine lyric poets [of ancient Greece], Pindar is by far
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