Pindar SM – Fragments of Pindar, 2 vol.

Pindar SM – Fragments of Pindar, 2 vol., ed. B. Snell and H. Maehler. Leipzig 1975 (4th ed.).

New Translations

Volume 2

Hymns fr 30 SM – pp. 8-9

<the Mousai are singing>

first the Moirai brought forth prudent heavenly Themis from the springs of Okeanos towards the grand staircase of Olympos along a shining way [5] to be the ancient wife of Zeus Savior; and she bore the golden-filleted, bestowing splendid fruit, honest Horai.  (Transl. E. Bianchelli)  EGM pp. 8, 52

Hymns fr 34 SM – p. 10

<Zeus> who having been struck with a sacrad double-edged axe gave birth to golden Athena  (Transl. E. Bianchelli)  EMC p. 51

Hymns fr 35 SM – p. 10

The Titans having been released from those bonds by your hands, o Lord  (Transl. E. Bianchelli)   EGM p. 47

Hymns fr 41 SM – p. 12

one of the Moirai is Tyche and she is strong above her sisters  (Transl. E. Bianchelli)  EMG p. 8

Paian 4.35-53 – pp. 23-24

[35]  I approve the words of lord Euxantius, who refused to rule over the Cretans, although they were willing, and to share a seventh part of one hundred
cities with the sons of Pasiphaë. But he told them his own sign: [40] “In truth I fear war with Zeus and I am afraid of loud-thundering Earthshaker. Indeed once with the thunderbolt and the the trident they sent the land and all the people into deep Tartaros [45] having left behind my mother and the entire well-fenced house. Then, experiencing wealth and having rejected all the customs of the country given by the blessed ones, do I enjoy great pleasure elsewhere? Too great would be for me the constant fear. [50] Vah, my heart, a cypress treee, vah pasture land around mount Ida. To me a small <piece?> of a bush has been given. But I have obtained by lot no <amount> of sorrow, no civil strife.  (Transl E. Bianchelli)  EGM pp. 130, 149, 270 lower

Paian 1.6-9 SM – p. 16

and the Horai, daughters of Themis came to the horse-driving city of Thebes bringing to Apollo the garlanded feast.  (Transl. E. Bianchelli)  EGM p. 53

Paian 6.155 SM – p. 31

…]  before an oath of Styx  (Transl. E. Bianchelli)  EMG p. 30

Paian 12.14-17 – p. 50 

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The twin children shone like the sun as [15] they went into the splendid light, and both Eleithuia and Lachesis uttered a great roar from their mouths.

……  (Transl. E. Bianchelli)  EGM p. 7, 83 upper, 97

fr 55 SM – p. 67

Apollo prevailed over Pytho (Delphi) by force, and for this Gaia wanted him cast down into Tartaros.  (Transl. E. Bianchelli)  EGM p. 88

Dithyrambs fr 70b SM – pp. 73-74

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[17] and the mighty aigis of Pallas [18] cries out with the hissing of countless serpents.

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[21] in Bacchic orgies

…… (Transl. E Bianchelli)  EGM pp. 85, 118

Dithyrambs fr 75.14-15 SM – pp. 81-82

When, as the chamber of the crimson-robed Horai is unlocked, [15] the fragrant fruit-trees bring in the sweet-smelling spring.  (Transl. E. Bianchelli)  EGM p. 53

Dithyrambs fr 81 SM – p. 84 (= p. 75)

I on my part praise you, Geryoneus, but were you not dearest to Zeus, I would be completly silent. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 407

Dithyrambs fr 85a SM – p. 84

Dionysos  was named after Zeus and the mountain Nysa, because he was born and brought up on it, as Pindar says.  (Transl. E. Bianchelli)  EGM p. 112 lower

Prosodia fr 92 SM – p. 86

about Typhoeus

around him lies Aitna, a very powerful bond  (Transl. E. Bianchelli)  EGM p. 49

Prosodia 93 SM – p. 86

but father Zeus, alone among the gods, was slaughtering terrible fifty-headed Typhoeus by force once among the Arimoi.  (Transl. E. Bianchelli)  EGM p. 49

fr 95 SM – p. 93

O Pan, guardian of Arkadia and holy shrines,

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attendant of the Great Mother delightful darling of the holy Charithes (Graces)  (Transl. E. Bianchelli)  EGM p. 110

fr 96 SM – p. 93

(to Pan)

O blessed one, whom the Olympians call the manifold dog of the Great Goddess  (Transl. E. Bianchelli)  EGM p. 110

fr 100 SM – p. 94

Pan was born to Penelope and Apollo (or Mercury?) on Mount Lykaion. (Transl. E. Bianchelli)  EGM p. 110

fr 156 SM – p. 119

Mighty dancing Silenos, husband of Nais, who was raised on the mountain of Maleia  (Transl. E. Bianchelli)  EGM p. 138

fr 162 SM – p. 120

(Otos and Ephialtes) falling swiftly down a ladder to the lofty sky (Transl. E. Bianchelli)  EGM p. 170

fr 166 SM – p. 121

When the beasts (Centaurs) knew the man-taming smell of honey-sweet wine, they impetuously hurled the white milk from the tables and, drinking of their own freewill from silver horns, they were becoming drunk…  (Transl. Aaron J. Ivey)  EGM  pp. 144, 279

fr 175 SM – p. 127

…Antiope the Amazon was snatched away by Peirithous and Theseus… (Transl. Aaron J. Ivey)  EGM  p. 282 lower

fr 176 SM – p. 127

…although Theseus had a son, Demophon, with Antiope… (Transl. Aaron J. Ivey)  EGM  p. 282 lower, 283

fr 177d SM – p. 128

the riddle from the savage jaws of a maiden (Translated by T. N. Gantz)  EGM p. 496

fr 249a SM – p. 143  See: Dithyrambos 2, p. 75

(153)  Herakles, having gone down to Hades to capture Kerberos, met Meleagros son of Oineus, and since he wished to marry his sister Deianeira, having returned to the light, he rushed to Aitolia to see Oineus;  and having seize the girl who was betrothed to Acheloos, the nearby river, he went on wrestling with him as he was in the shape of a bull; and having torn one of his horns, he took the girl. The author says that Acheloos gave Herakles the horn he had acquired from Amaltheia daughter of Okeanos and thus recovered his own.  (Transl. E. Bianchelli)  EGM pp. 28, 42, 413 lower, 432

fr 249b SM – p. 143  See: Dithyrambos 2, p. 75

Kerberos <__> hundred-headed  (Transl. E. Bianchelli)  EGM p. 22

fr 253 SM – p. 143

Erichthonios…appeared from the earth  (Transl. Aaron J. Ivey).  EGM  p. 233

fr 266 SM – p. 145

that the Cyclopes had been killed by Zeus fearing that they might forge weapons for anyone else of the gods. (Transl. E. Bianchelli)   EGM p. 13

fr 283 SM – p. 146

Hera is chained by Hephaestos on a throne that he had built. (Transl. E. Bianchelli) EGM p. 75

 

 

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