Commentaries on Individual Odes of Pindar
Lowell Edmunds

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This bibliography includes neither studies of individual odes nor notes on isolated lines or passages of individual odes, except that honoris causa I included Bundy's famous studies. Ilja Pfeijffer's Pindar bibliography includes nineteenth-century commentaries not listed here. For these earlier works, see also D. E. Gerber, A Bibliography of Pindar 1513-1966 (Case Western Reserve University Press, 1969). Please send additions and corrections to lowedmunds@gmail.com.

 Olympians
1 DB, DH, F, G1, G3, H, I, K, L, V2
2 DH, K, Le, W
3 DH, H, V1
4 G2, M
5 M
6 DH, K
7 DH, K, V1, W
10 V2
11 DH, Bu1, H, K, W
12 DH, G1, H, K, V1
14 DH, H, K, V1
Pythians
1 DH, H, K, Ko, L
2 C, DH, K, L
3 D, DH, H, L
4 B1, D, K
5 D, He
6 DH
8 DH, K, P
9 C, D, DH, I, K
10 DH, H, K
11 DH
12 DH, H
Nemeans
1 B2, C, K
2 DH, H, I
3 I, P
4 W
5 P
7 DH, C, K
8 DH, H
9 B3
11 V2
Isthmians
1 Bu2, I, K
2 V2
3 W
4 W
6 K
7 W
8 C

B1 = Braswell, Bruce Karl. A Commentary on the Fourth Pythian Ode of Pindar. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter.  1988.
B2 = Braswell, Bruce Karl. A Commentary on Pindar Nemean One. Fribourg: University Press.  1992.
B3 = Braswell, Bruce Karl.  A Commentary on Pindar Nemean Nine. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.  1998.
Bu1 = Bundy, Elroy L. Studia Pindarica I: The Eleventh Olympian Ode. University of California Publications in Classical Philology 18, no. 1. 1962.
Bu2 = Bundy, Elroy L. Studia Pindarica II: The First Isthmian Ode. University of California Publications in Classical Philology 18, no. 1. 1962.  A combined edition of the two studies was published by University of California Press in 1986 under the title Studia Pindarica.
C = Carey, Christopher. A Commentary on Five Odes of Pindar : Pythian 2, Pythian 9, Nemean 7, Isthmian 8. Arno Press Monographs in Classical Studies. Salem, NH: The Ayer Company.  1981.
D = Duchemin, Jacqueline. Pindare : Pythiques III, IX, IV, V. Collection Erasme. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.  1967.
DB = Degani, Enzo, and Gabriele Burzacchini. Lirici Greci. Florence: La Nuova Italia.  1977.
DH = Dickey, Eleanor and Richard Hamilton.  New Selected Odes of Pindar.  2 vols. (Text and Commentary).  Bryn Mawr PA: Bryn Mawr Greek Commentaries.  1991.
F = Fisker, Dorthe. Pindars erste Olympische Ode. Odense Classical Studies, 15. Odense: Odense Universitetsforlag.  1990.
G1 = Gerber, D. E. Euterpe. Amsterdam: Hakkert.  1970.
G2 = Gerber, D. E. "Pindar's Olympian Four: A Commentary." QUCC 54 = NS 25 (1987) 7-24.
G3 = Gerber, D. E. Pindar's Olympian One : A Commentary. Phoenix Supplement, 15. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.  1982.
H = Hamilton, Richard. Selected Odes of Pindar. Bryn Mawr PA: Bryn Mawr Greek Commentaries.  1985.
I = Instone, S.  Selected Odes: Olympian One,Pythian Nine, Nemeans Two and Three, Isthmian One.  Warminster: Aris and Phillips.  1996.
K = Kirkwood, Gordon. Selections from Pindar. American Philological Association Textbook Series, 7. Chico, CA: Scholars Press.  1982.
Ko = Kollmann, Otmar. Das Prooimion des ersten pythischen Ode Pindars : ein sprachlich-poetisches Kommentar. Vienna: Turia and Kant.  1989.
L = Lefkowitz, Mary. The Victory Ode : An Introduction. Park Ridge NJ: Noyes Press.  1976.
Le = Leeuwen, Johannes van. Pindarus' tweede Olympische ode. 2 vols. Assen: Van Gorcum.  1964.  In Dutch.
M = Mader, Walter. Die Psaumis-Oden Pindars (O. 4 und O. 5) : ein Kommentar. Commentationes Aenipontanae, 29. Innsbruck: Universitätsverlag Wagner.  1990.
P = Pfeijffer, Ilja. Three Aeginetan Odes of Pindar : A Commentary on Nemean V, Nemean III, and Pythian VIII. Leiden: Brill, 1999.
V1 = Verdenius, W. J. Commentaries on Pindar. Vol. 1.  Leiden: E. J. Brill.  1987.
V2 = Verdenius, W. J. Commentaries on Pindar. Vol. 2.  Leiden: E. J. Brill.  1988.
W = Willcock, M. M. Pindar : Victory Odes : Olympians 2, 7, and 11; Nemean 4; Isthmians 3, 4, and 7. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.  1995.