Word: pindar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...able practitioner of glitz lit. As a classics scholar (he has taught at Harvard, Yale and Princeton), he understands that readers never tire of seeing the proud and the privileged lowered by fate. Love Story, his bittersweet ode to the Ivy League, established him as the preppies' Pindar. The Class is his bid to be their Homer...
Actually, Nagy not only took a whale-watching cruise off Cape Cod, he also completed a book of literary criticism on the work of Pindar, an archaic Greek lyric poet...
Professor of Greek and Latin Gregory Nagy plans to delve into some Pindar this summer, but he suggests a singular literary journey for students. If they read anything at all, they must read the Robert S. Fitzgerald '33 translation of Homer's The Odyssey, Nagy assigns the Richard Lattimore version for his perennially popular course Lit & Arts C-14. "The Concept of the Hero in Hellenic Civilization." He lauds the Fitzgerald translation as a "beautiful experience because of its artists unity...
...real McCoy and swooped down on the Pisates during the Games. They won. The modern marathon,"inspired by the tale of a soldier who ran 25 miles to report a victory, commemorates both politics and conquest. As for the glory of fighting well, one needs only to read Pindar on the ignominy of the losers...