{"id":13703,"date":"2011-01-30T10:12:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T10:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=13703"},"modified":"2021-02-12T07:10:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T07:10:42","slug":"pindar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/pindar\/","title":{"rendered":"Pindar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>P<\/strong><strong>indar (522-443 BC) <\/strong>was one of the nine ancient Greek lyric poets. He refers to the \u2018Pillars of Heracles\u2019 in three of his victory odes, <em>Olympian<\/em> 3.43-45, <em>Nemean<\/em> 3.19-23 and <em>Isthmian<\/em> 4.11-13, doing so in a manner which indicates that the term was used as a metaphor for the limit of human (Greek) experience. As such, the location of the Pillars would have changed as the colonial and commercial expansion of the Greeks developed beyond the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/aegean-sea\/\">Aegean<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&gt;<\/span><\/strong>One commentator has interpreted Pindar&#8217;s <em>Olympian Ode 3<\/em> as referring to the Pillars of Herakles being placed at the &#8216;Springs of Ister&#8217; on the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/danube-river\/\">Danube<\/a> near Belgrade, noting that &#8220;<em>t<\/em><em>his is the very edge of Pindar\u2019s Celtic world and a point beyond which a Greek probably did not want to venture.<\/em>&#8220;<sup>(b)<\/sup><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&lt;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/smith-oliver-d-n\/\">Oliver D.Smith<\/a> has drawn attention to the <em>Nemean Ode<\/em> 4, 65-70 as having echoes of Plato\u2019s description in it<sup>(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/atlantisresearch.wordpress.com\/ (now offline)<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&gt;<\/span><\/strong><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/sherlockfindsatlantis.wordpress.com\/\">https:\/\/sherlockfindsatlantis.wordpress.com\/<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&lt;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pindar (522-443 BC) was one of the nine ancient Greek lyric poets. He refers to the \u2018Pillars of Heracles\u2019 in three of his victory odes, Olympian 3.43-45, Nemean 3.19-23 and Isthmian 4.11-13, doing so in a manner which indicates that the term was used as a metaphor for the limit of human (Greek) experience. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[624,2366,2214,48,1741],"class_list":["post-13703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aegean-sea","tag-danube","tag-oliver-d-smith","tag-pillars-of-heracles","tag-pindar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13703"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48248,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13703\/revisions\/48248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}