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Title: Informative, But Terribly Dry
Review: The translation is incredibly hard to read, with no pattern to the text and sadly thread-bare quality to the language itself. This reads like an astute yet uninspired translation by an academic writer. The tranliterations are a bit out-of-date (Athena as Athana, for example).Admittedly, Bowra suggest that Pindar himself is hard to read. There is evidence for this in the subject matter of the poems: Pindar covers enormous depth in small space.There are notes at the end of every poem, which, for me, are preferable to endnotes. One learns more than expect about the life of a lyric poet: Pindar's movements from city to city and his expectation of payment for poetry.I would not recommend this translation to a friend.
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