{"slug": "pindar", "label": "Pindar", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pindar", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134929", "qid": "Q134929", "description": "5th-century BC Greek lyric poet", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [-517, -179], "span_label": ["518 BCE", "180 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "sicily", "label": "Sicily", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "syracuse-sicily", "label": "Syracuse, Sicily", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thebes-greece", "label": "Thebes, Greece", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ancient-olympic-games", "label": "Ancient Olympic Games", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -517, "year_label": "518 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Pindar, Greek lyric poet (approximate date) (d. 438 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342658453#Births", "title": "518 BC", "revid": 1342658453, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -497, "year_label": "498 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The Greek poet Pindar composes his earliest surviving epinikion (Pythian ode 10).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373138296#Literature", "title": "498 BC", "revid": 1373138296, "section": "Events › By topic › Literature"}}, {"year": -475, "year_label": "476 BCE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Greek poet Pindar visits Sicily and is made welcome at the courts of Theron of Acragas and Hieron I of Syracuse. They commission some of his greatest poetry. It is through these connections that Pindar's reputation spreads all over the Greek world.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129376#Literature", "title": "476 BC", "revid": 1350129376, "section": "Events › By topic › Literature"}}, {"year": -473, "year_label": "474 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The Greek poet Pindar moves to Thebes after two years at the Sicilian Court of Hiero I of Syracuse. While at Thebes, he composes lyric odes to celebrate triumphs in the Olympic Games and other athletic events.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360598367#Literature", "title": "474 BC", "revid": 1360598367, "section": "Events › By topic › Literature"}}, {"year": -442, "year_label": "443 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Pindar, Greek poet (b. 522 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360981312#Deaths", "title": "443 BC", "revid": 1360981312, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -179, "year_label": "180 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Aristophanes of Byzantium, Greek scholar, critic and grammarian, particularly renowned for his work in Homeric scholarship, but also for work on other classical authors such as Pindar and Hesiod. After early studies under leading scholars in Alexandria, he has been chief librarian since about 195 BC (b. 257 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1266100368#Deaths", "title": "180 BC", "revid": 1266100368, "section": "Deaths"}}]}