THE EXTANT ODES OF PINDAR

by Pindar
Translated into English with Introduction and Short Notes by Ernest Myers, M.A., Sometime Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, 1904

SON OF THE LIGHTNING, FAIR AND FIERY STAR, STRONG-WINGED IMPERIAL PINDAR, VOICE DIVINE, LET THESE DEEP DRAUGHTS OF THY ENCHANTED WINE LIFT ME WITH THEE IN SOARINGS HIGH AND FAR PROUDER THAN PEGASEAN, OR THE CAR WHEREIN APOLLO RAPT THE HUNTRESS MAID. SO LET ME RANGE MINE HOUR, TOO SOON TO FADE INTO STRANGE PRESENCE OF THE THINGS THAT ARE. YET KNOW THAT EVEN AMID THIS JARRING NOISE OF HATES, LOVES, CREEDS, TOGETHER HEAPED AND HURLED, SOME ECHO FAINT OF GRACE AND GRANDEUR STIRS FROM THY SWEET HELLAS, HOME OF NOBLE JOYS. FIRST FRUIT AND BEST OF ALL OUR WESTERN WORLD; WHATE'ER WE HOLD OF BEAUTY, HALF IS HERS.

The Sadism in Oscar Wilde's "Salome," by Isador H. Coriat, M.D.
Salome, by Oscar Wilde
Clouds, by Aristophanes
The Ibis, by Ovid, translated by A. S. Kline
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Marquis De Sade: His Life and Work, by Dr. Iwan Bloch
Salammbo, by Gustave Flaubert
The Golden Ass, or Metamorphoses, by Apuleius, translated by E. J. Kenney

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Prefatory Note
• Olympian Odes
• The Pythian Odes
• The Nemean Odes
• The Isthmian Odes
• Fragments