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Pindar (B.C. 521-442), without distinction of city or people, was celebrating all that was vigorous and active in his own clay, and all that was noble and stirring in the traditions of the past. Simonides was an islander, and Pindar was a Boeotian, and the most noteworthy of their contemporaries came from other islands or states, while Herodotus, the historian of the Persian wars, was a native of Caria. But in the writings of them all we see emerging the glory of Athens, and in the next period it is her poets, historians, and orators that have left the most enduring monuments of the Greek genius.
