Abstract

Pindar was read and appreciated in Byzantium, as one may detect from an analysis of poem 6 by Christopher Mitylenaios. This short text contains many references to the lyric poet both in structure and content, revealing that whoever read it needed to have studied Pindar in order to understand the parody and description of the chariot race. Thus the poem brings forward the question of readership and proposes a short list of people who definitely had read Pindar in the middle eleventh century