Isthmian Ode IV

Pindar

To the house of Antaios there came a hero from Thebes of Kadmos’ race [Herakles], to Libya’s corn-lands, small in his body’s height but of soul indomitable, bringing a wrestler’s grip to stay him who crowned with skulls of strangers Poseidon’s holy shrine. — 4 ep3

 

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