« Pindar and the archaic poetical tradition, according to the ancient scholia to the Pythian Odes » We have tried to gather, in the scholia to the Pythian Odes, the indications which may reveal the idea that the scholiasts got of the relation of Pindar to the authors who preceded him and particularly to Homer. Occasionally, they compare one element of the Pindaric poem with a Homeric fact without suggesting that Pindar may have imitated Homer, but very often they seem to have thought that Pindar conformed to the Homeric model, and they can even say that explicitely, whether they consider a morphological or lexical peculiarity, or a figure, a history, a moral or religious teaching. It happens also that they say that Pindar wanted to innovat...