Pindar, or Pindarus (Greek: Πίνδαρος; probably born 522 BC in Cynoscephalae, a village in Boeotia; died 443 BC in Argos), was an Ancient Greek lyric poet. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, Pindar's the one whose work's by far the best preserved, and critics in antiquity tended to regard him as the greatest. Quintilian described him as "by far the greatest of the nine lyric poets, in virtue of his inspired magnificence, the beauty of hi… (More on Pindar)