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ASHER. Then let Him strike me! During all the years of our married life, he has never said such a thing as that. Asher an atheist! DR. JONATHAN. So was Job, Augusta, for a while. You wanted to speak to me, Jonathan? MAID. Timothy Farrell, ma'am. AUGUSTA. I'm afraid Mr. Pindar can't see you just now, Timothy.
Why should we be so easily awed by artistic genius and exalt men whose works we know only by name, perhaps, and whose influence upon society has been infinitesimal, like a Pindar or a Leonardo, while we regard great merchants and inventors as ignoble creatures in comparison?
Six thousand of the inhabitants were slain, and 30,000 sold into slavery; the house and descendants of the poet Pindar alone being spared. This severity struck terror into all Greece. The Athenians were treated with more leniency. Alexander, having appointed Antipater his deputy in Europe, now prepared to prosecute the war with Persia.
The former thus speaks of Lacedaemon: Then gleams the youth's bright falchion; then the Muse Lifts her sweet voice; then awful Justice opes Her wide pavilion. And Pindar sings, Then in grave council sits the sage: Then burns the youth's resistless rage To hurl the quiv'ring lance; The Muse with glory crowns their arms, And Melody exerts her charms, And Pleasure leads the dance.
Pindar, three hundred years after Hesiod, had confirmed the existence of the Islands of the Blest, where the good led a blameless, tearless, life. The references to a supposed far-back state of peace and happiness are indeed numerous. See arts. by Margaret Scholes, Socialist Review, Nov. and Dec. 1912.
All day it flashed and darkened under the rack, and I rejoiced in the sight, and knew why Pindar called it the pillar of heaven; and at night it hooded itself once more with the winter cloud. Would you see this land as I see it?
AUGUSTA. I I can't discuss it. But I want to be just. I'm convinced that I did you a wrong and I'm sorry. Won't you believe me? MINNIE. But you'll never forgive me even if I hadn't done what you thought on account of what happened with George. AUGUSTA. I I'll try. MINNIE. No, don't try forgiveness doesn't come that way, Mrs. Pindar. Jonathan, that you wanted to get me out of Foxon Falls.
Let us speak of his poetry, first having shortly recalled his origin. Homer, Pindar says, was a Chian and of Smyrnae; Simonides says a Chian; Antimachus and Nicander, a Colophonion; but the philosopher Aristotle says he was of Iete; the historian Ephorus says he was from Kyme. Some do not hesitate to say he was from Salamis in Cyprus; some, an Argive.
PINDAR, though the contemporary of Simonides, was considerably his junior: He was born either at, or in the neighbourhood of, Thebes in Boeotia, about the year 522 B.C. Later writers tell us that his future glory as a poet was miraculously foreshadowed by a swarm of bees which rested upon his lips while he was asleep, and that this miracle first led him to compose poetry.
There is an old story that Pindar had never in his lifetime written an ode in praise of Persephone, the goddess of death and the dead, and that after he had departed from among living men, his shade communicated to the priests a new hymn on the Queen of Hades.
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