Research Catalog

Title

Olympian odes / Pindar ; translation & introduction William H. Race ; [typographic perspective prepared by George D. Mathiopoulos].

Author

Pindar

Publication

Athens : Greek Font Society, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Matthiopoulos, Giōrgos D.
• Race, William H., 1943-
• Greek Font Society

Description

[28], 144 p. : ill.; 30 cm.

Summary

This work is part of a 7 volume multi-lingual set published to commemorate the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Each volume includes the Classical Greek text, an introduction by William H. Race, and a typographical perspective prepared by George D. Matthiopoulos. In each volume, the Classical Greek text is set in a different Greek historical font.

Uniform Title

Olympian odes. English & Greek. 2004

Alternative Title

Olympian odes. 2004

Subject

• Pindar > Translations into English
• Olympic games (Ancient) > Poetry
• Laudatory poetry, Greek > Translations into English
• Athletics > Greece > Poetry
• Mythology, Greek > Poetry
• Games > Greece > Poetry

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Wilson Greek – Greece – Athens – 21st century.

Note

• Part of a multi-lingual commemorative edition of Pindar's Olympian Odes, for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens; limited to 1000 copies, not for sale.
• Classical Greek text in Wilson Greek [historical font].

Language (note)

• Parallel Classical Greek text and English translation on facing pages, with introductory material in English.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

9608815606

OCLC

• 56638342
• SCSB-12758664

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library