In honor of the Athenian Olympics, Armand D’Angour (at Oxford), has written a Pindaric ode:
http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/po/greek.pdf
(Or see the Oxford press release.)
Delightful. It is not long, my fellow versifiers, before all Greek and Latin versions are of such import they need press releases for the classics-frenzied media!
I didn’t know they still did Greek at Oxford.
~D
i liked this ode: a few expressions come directly from the olympians, and the first main sentence has the ring of the openings of olympians 1 and 2 combined. if anyone’s interested in composing a triad like this, the ode scans (- is long, . is short, x is short in one strophe and long in the other strophe):
strophe and antistophe
(1) - . - - - . . - . . -
(2) - . . - . . - - - . . - . . -
(3) - - . . - . . - - - . - -
(4) - . - - - . . - . . .
(5) - . - . - . - -
(6) - . . - . . - - . - - . x
(7) - . . - . . -
(8) - . - - - . - x - . - -
epode
(1) - . . - - . - - . . - . . -
(2) - . . - . . - - . - . - . .
(3) - . - - - . . - . . -
(4) - . - . - . - - . . - . . - - - . -
(5) - . . - . . - - . . - . . -
(6) - - . . - . . - - - . - . - . .
(7) - - . - - - . . - . . -
(8) - . . - . . - . - . -
(9) . - . - - - . . - . . - -
(10) - . - - . - -