Ode
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...The ode dates back to the Greek choral songs that were sung...events and celebrations. The Greek odes of Pindar, which were modeled on the choral odes of Greek drama, were poems of praise...more personal lyric form of Sappho, Anacreon, and Alcaeus (see...