In addition to epinikia, a victorious athlete might be honored with a statue, as with this charioteer found at Delphi, probably a champion driver at the Pythian Games
The epinikion or epinicion (pl.: epinikia or epinicia, Greek ἐπινίκιον, from epi-, "on", + nikê, "victory") is a genre of occasional poetry also known in English as a victory ode. In ancient Greece, the epinikion most often took the form of a choral lyric, commissioned for and performed at the celebration of an athletic victory in the Panhellenic Games and sometimes in honor of a victory in war.[1] Major poets in the genre are Simonides, Bacchylides, and Pindar.
^Thomas J. Mathiesen, "Epinikion and encomium", in Apollo's lyre: Greek Music and Music Theory in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. University of Nebraska Press, 2000, pp. 135–141 online.
The epinikion or epinicion (pl.: epinikia or epinicia, Greek ἐπινίκιον, from epi-, "on", + nikê, "victory") is a genre of occasional poetry also known...
Bysshe Shelley Gary Soto George Sterling Allen Tate William Wordsworth Epinikion Milton, John (1966). Bush, Douglas (ed.). Milton: Poetical Works. Oxford:...
was hailed as the "best of all the odes" by Lucian. Pindar composed the epinikion in honour of his then patron Hieron I, tyrant of Syracuse, whose horse...
their couches and passed the word along to form a victory procession [epinikion komon] in honor of Dionysius. (5) Promptly, many torches were gathered...
plates and captions. Bacchylides, Dithyrambs (470 B.C); xx. 2 Bacchylides, Epinikion; ix. 23 Pitman 2003, pp. 9–10, 14–15. Pitman 2003, pp. 9–11, 14–15. Pitman...
Olympics portal Sport of athletics portal Archaeological Museum of Olympia Epinikion Athletes and athletics in ancient Greek art Ludi, the Roman games influenced...
Diagoras of Rhodes Athletes' Stories by Perseus Project The Extant Odes of Pindar By Pindar Page 48 ISBN 1-4264-4355-2; Pindar's epinikion to Diagoras...
interferes in the war. The earliest surviving of the Greek poets Pindar's epinikion (Pythian ode 10) is written. Amyntas I, king of Macedonia (b. c. 540 BC)...
party or symposium (Skolion) Song about victory in an athletic contest (Epinikion) Alcman was a 7th-century BCE poet who represents the earliest Alexandrian...
Greek volumes, among them the first Greek book printed in Rome, Pindar's Epinikion ("Victory Odes"). He also instituted the Greek College of the Quirinal [el]...
champion boxer. Telesarchus commissioned Pindar to write a victory ode, or epinikion, celebrating his son's athletic wins at both the Nemean and the Isthmian...
Funeral Games ..." Cambell cites P.Oxy.2637 and finds also a pindaric/epinikion tone in a quote from Porphyry (comment. in Ptolem. harmon. iv):"with the...
horse, this enables comparison of their respective approaches to the epinikion or victory ode: Bacchylides "enters thoroughly into the excitement of...
was rediscovered in 1953. Pindar honoured Ergoteles with the following Epinikion hymn: Daughter of Eleutherian Jove, protecting Fortune, to thy power I...
Theresianum. He retired in 1824. Unsere Sprache. 1784 Die Könige. 1787 Epinikion Herrn Johann August Starck. 1790 (Digitalisat in der Digitalen Bibliothek...
Greek and Latin verses. The first Latin verse, Nimium Cervisi, was an epinikion, a victory ode sung after the annual steeplechase run on St. Simon and...
piano (1932) Op.14 Fantasia Overture for Organ in D minor (1902) Op.28 Epinikion "Song of Victory" (1907) Op.37 Elegiac Rhapsody on an Old Church Melody...
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