Basic introduction Chinese name: Pindar Nationality: Ancient Greece Date of birth: 5 18 BC Date of death: 438 BC Occupation: Poet's representative works: introduction, detailed introduction, works, introduction The most famous writer of chorus piano music is Pindar (522 BC? ~442 years). At that time, sports competitions prevailed in Greece, and competitive activities were combined with festivals dedicated to the gods. Pindar praised the winners of the Olympic Games and other Pan-Greek Games and their city-states in his poems. He wrote seventeen volumes of poetry, but only four volumes have been handed down. His poems contain pan-Greek patriotic enthusiasm and moral teachings; He praised the victory of the Greeks in the Battle of Salami (480 BC). He believes that a person's fate after death depends on his behavior when he is alive. His poems are solemn in style, flowery in rhetoric and perfect in form. Pindar's chorus had a great influence on later European literature and was regarded as a model of "lofty ode" in the classicism period of the 17th century. Introduce the poet Pindar (or translated version of Dallos, Greek: π? νδαρο? /píndaros； English: Pinda (about 522 BC or 5 18 ~ 442 BC or 438 BC) is known as "the best lyric poet" and is the first recorded figure among Greek writers. He was born in a noble family in Kefale, Kurnos province near the ancient city of Thebes. He has a good education, can play flute and harp, and is proficient in poetry and meter. He traveled all over Greek cities. Pindar is a professional poet, famous for his chorus. His poems are magnificent, rigorous and powerful, full of vivid metaphors, with high artistic conception and profound thoughts. Related to his religious belief, his poems have a certain mysterious color, and some poems, especially those in the middle and late period, are obscure. Pindar showed outstanding talent in his youth, and the tenth poem "Ode to the Winner of Pito", one of his masterpieces, was written at the age of twenty. There are many wonderful legends about him, one of which is that his poems are so beautiful because bees spit honey on his mouth when he sleeps. Pindar has written poems on various subjects, especially choral carols. His poems are praised by the whole Greek nation and are known as "national poets". Compared with other lyric poets, Pindar's poems have been handed down from generation to generation, with 45 poems and 3428 lines, mainly praising the winners of Olympia and other competitions. Pindar's works are in the Alexandria Library. It has been compiled into volumes: 1 hymn of Humnoy 1 hymn of Apollo in Agnes, 2 hymn of Dionysus in Dishau and Lamboj 1 prelude to rhythm, 3 girl's song in Passignat 1 dance of Hooper Chemata, 65. 438+0 Enkomia's Ode 1 Serenoy's Elegy 4 Epi Nicchia's Song of Victory, of which only the song of victory has been completely preserved.