Victory song of the competition - Kyogishukushouka (English) epinikia

Japanese: 競技祝勝歌 - きょうぎしゅくしょうか（英語表記）epinikia

These choral songs were written to praise the victors of the ancient Greek athletic contests, namely the Olympian, Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian Games. The famous composers of these games were Pindar, Simonides, and Bacchylides, who lived from the end of the 6th century BCE to the first half of the 5th century BCE. Pindar's songs, which combine the physical beauty of the athletes with the pride of the poet in his command of poetic language in a powerful composition that transports the reader away from this earth, represent one of the pinnacles of Greek linguistic sensibility.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

古代ギリシアの競技会，すなわち，オリュンピア，ピュティア，ネメア，イストミア競技での勝利者をたたえて作られた合唱隊用の歌。その作者としては，前6世紀末から前5世紀前半のピンダロス，シモニデス，バッキュリデスが名高い。なかでも，競技者の肉体の美と，詩的言語を操る詩人の矜持（きようじ）とを力強い構成に組み立て，読む者をこの地上から連れ去るピンダロスの歌は，ギリシアの言語感覚の一つの頂点を形づくるものである。

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