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13. Olympian 8: Aiakos at the Walls of Troy
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Published:September 2005
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Olympian 8 is the only Aiginetan ode by Pindar that celebrates an Olympic victory. In 460 BC, Alkimedon, a boy of the Blepsiad tribe, sailed round the Peloponnese, probably in the company of his trainer, and after a month's preparation at Pisa, defeated all his opponents in the wrestling ring in the Olympics. Through this rare triumph, Zeus ‘exalted’ the boy's city and his tribe, the elder generations of which had also known major victories. Olympian 8 is a Zeus-filled song in which the god is four times formally named — as Zeus of the Silver Bolt, Zeus genethlios, Zeus Xenios, and Zeus the deep-thundering Son of Kronos — before a final prayer in which he is summoned as one who apportions splendid things among mortals. From an Aiakos set down on Aigina by his divine chauffeur, the chorus turns directly and with a rhetorical flourish to Alkimedon's trainer. The snakes and the Aiakid takers of Troy cannot really be reconciled, and Pindar covers the course of two long wars in ten words.
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