The paper consists of two, closely related, parts, a brief introduction to the reading of the poem written by Neo-Latin poet from Cracow, Andrzej Schoen (Andreas Schoneus, 1552–1615), and the transcription of this text and its translation from original Latin into Polish. The ode dedicated to Jerzy Radziwiłł (Oda ad Georgium Radivilum, Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalem, Episcopum Cracoviensem, Principem amplissimum), bishop of Cracow, fits within the wider context of the imitation (and the emulation as well), concentrating on a literary game with the style of Pindar. Schoen produced his work in a style that mixes a poetic imaginary of the poet from Thebes and Horatian lyric discourse. The poetry created by Pindar is treated in this case as an inexhaustible source of the ideas associated mainly with the concept of a poet and a poetry as well as easily recognizable key-words and phrases taken from his poetic phraseology. The main aim of the perspective adopted in these critical enquiries is to present a variety of intertextual and cross-contextual connections between the lyric of Greek poet and the ode of his early modern imitator.

The paper consists of two, closely related, parts, a brief introduction to the reading of the poem written by Neo-Latin poet from Cracow, Andrzej Schoen (Andreas Schoneus, 1552–1615), and the transcription of this text and its translation from original Latin into Polish. The ode dedicated to Jerzy Radziwiłł (Oda ad Georgium Radivilum, Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalem, Episcopum Cracoviensem, Principem amplissimum), bishop of Cracow, fits within the wider context of the imitation (and the emulation as well), concentrating on a literary game with the style of Pindar. Schoen produced his work in a style that mixes a poetic imaginary of the poet from Thebes and Horatian lyric discourse. The poetry created by Pindar is treated in this case as an inexhaustible source of the ideas associated mainly with the concept of a poet and a poetry as well as easily recognizable key-words and phrases taken from his poetic phraseology. The main aim of the perspective adopted in these critical enquiries is to present a variety of intertextual and cross-contextual connections between the lyric of Greek poet and the ode of his early modern imitator.