Pindar (or Pindarus, Greek: Πίνδαρος) (probably born 522 BC in Cynoscephalae, a village in Boeotia; died 443 BC in Argos), was a Greek lyric poet. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, Pindar is the one whose work is best preserved, and some critics since antiquity have regarded him as the greatest. Biography Pindar was born at Cynoscephalae, a village in Boeotia. He was the son of Daiphantus and Cleodice. The traditions… (More on Pindar)