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Which competition did Pindar win at the Great Dionysia?
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Pindar's first Olympic ode, its context, and the significance of the victory ode, or epinicion.
In 497 or 496 BCE, when he was approximately 20 years old, Pindar won first place in the dithyrambic competition at the Great Dionysia in Athens.1