Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion: A Study in Survivals

by J. C. Lawson

[1309] This is of course only one out of several passages in which Pindar speaks of the future life, and he does not adhere to any one doctrine; elsewhere, as in Ol. II., his views are coloured largely by Pythagorean or Orphic eschatology, although there is a close resemblance between the isles of the blest there described (126–135) and the abode depicted in this fragment.

[1310] Hom. Il. IX. 632 ff.

[1311] Herod. II. 51.

[1312] Herod. II. 171.

[1313] Aristoph. Frogs, 884.

[1314] Op. cit. 1032 ff.

[1315] A conspicuous example is Delphi, where the Achaean god Apollo had usurped the place of some oracular deity of the Pelasgians, cf. Plutarch, de defect. orac. cap. 15 p. 418. See Miss Harrison, Proleg. to the Study of Greek Religion, pp. 113 f.

[1316] Il. XXIII. 104.

[1317] Il. XXIII. 101.

[1318] Plato, Phaedo, cap. 29 (p. 80 D).