The Extant Odes of Pindar (Second Edition)
by PINDAR; MYERS, Ernest (translator)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
London: Macmillan and Company. Very Good-. 1888. Hardcover. Stated second edition. Translator Ernest Myers has rendered the extant odes of Pindar (c. 518 438 BC) into English, both complete and fragments. Pindar was a lyric poet of ancient Greece whose work was held in high regard by his fellow poets. Myers has supplied an introduction, which details aspects of the poet's life. --- In full navy cloth-covered boards with titling and horizontal bands in gilt to spine; dark endpapers. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- With small tears to endpapers at the gutters, some slight soiling to cloth and mildly rounded cover corners, else a sound, well-preserved copy.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; 23, 176, [2, ads] pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88288
- Title
- The Extant Odes of Pindar (Second Edition)
- Author
- PINDAR; MYERS, Ernest (translator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1888
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Poetry;
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