A poem in this genre addressed to a man “fortunate in your fate” describes an eagle “cutting the depth of air on high with tawny wings.” Another poem in this genre asks, “Creatures of a day, what is any one?” and calls man “the dream of a shadow.” A poem in this genre describes how “gold, like a gleaming fire by night, outshines all pride of wealth” and begins, “best of all things is water.” Some poems in this genre were traditionally performed by a group that would move to the left, right, and middle of a stage as they recited its three parts, including the strophe and antistrophe. “Pythian” and “Isthmian” collections were among the books of epinikia, a subtype of this genre, that praised the victories of Hieron of Syracuse and other Greek athletes. For 10 points, Bacchylides and Pindar influenced Horace with their poems in what genre that praises a subject? ■END■
ANSWER: Pindaric odes [or victory odes; or Olympian odes; accept epinikia until read] (The first clue is from Bacchylides’s fifth ode.)
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