Pythian

Pindar

Pindar. Arnson Svarlien, Diane, translator. Created for the Perseus Project, 1990.

  1. in honor of seven-gated Thebes and the contest at Cirrha, in which Thrasydaeus caused his ancestral hearth to be remembered by flinging over it a third wreath
  2. as a victor in the rich fields of Pylades, the friend of Laconian Orestes,
  3. who indeed, when his father was murdered, was taken by his nurse Arsinoe from the strong hands and bitter deceit of Clytaemnestra, when she sent the Dardanian daughter of Priam,
  4. Cassandra, together with the soul of Agamemnon, to the shadowy bank of Acheron with her gray blade of bronze,