Pindar’s Nemean 2: the personal victory as a reflection of the city’s aggrandizement

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that, through a web of interconnected verbal repetitions that essentially create a subtext to his poem, Pindar implies that the victories won by Timodemus and his ancestors reflect and predict the aggrandizement of their native city, Athens. And Pindar, who undertakes the task of extolling the victor, simultaneously glorifies Athens.