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TRANSLATION FOR 2004 ATHENS OLYMPICS GOLD MEDAL
Last week Leon Worden asked:
Can anyone translate the inscription on this
gold medal from Athens 2004? It belongs to Olympic home run record-holder
Crystl Bustos (USA Softball, 2000-gold, 2004-gold, 2008-silver), and she'd
like to know what it says. Franois Velde of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago writes:
These are the first words of Pindar's 8th Olympian ode:
Mater O chrusostephanon aethlon, Olumpia despoin' aletheias O mother of
gold-crowned contests, Olympia, queen of truth
(most of the individual words are recognizable: mater=mother, chrusos=gold, stephanos=crown, aethlon has given us athlete, despoina is the same root as despot.)
(most of the individual words are recognizable: mater=mother, chrusos=gold, stephanos=crown, aethlon has given us athlete, despoina is the same root as despot.)
Many thanks. Our readers sure are a sharp bunch! Now I had
to look up Pindar, and learned that "Pindaros or Pindar (c. 518 BC to
c.438 BC) was the great lyric poet of ancient Greece, was born at
Cynoscephalae." -Editor
To read more on Pindar, see: Pindar
(http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Live/Writer/Pindar.htm)Wayne Homren, Editor
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