The value of victory in Pindar's odes gnomai, cosmology and the role of the poet / [electronic resource] :
by Hanna Boeke.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
- x, 230 p.
- Mnemosyne bibliotheca classica Batava, v. 285 0169-8958 ; .
- Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 285. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-208) and indexes.
Gnomai as a source of cosmological reflection -- The nature of gnomai according to modern scholarship -- Ancient thinking on gnomai -- The "true point" of gnomai -- The gnomic expression of cosmology in Pindar -- Definitions and assumptions -- The elemental forces : fate, God, nature and man -- The human condition -- Man in society -- Cosmology in action : an analysis of selected odes -- Olympian 12 : an immigrant and his adopted city -- Isthmian 4 : creating for an ill-favoured victor -- Olympian 13 : praising an ambitious family -- The poet as mediator of cosmology -- Isthmian 4 : the poet modifies a cosmological premise -- Olympian 13 : the poet demonstrates cosmological principles -- Cosmology and the poet in short odes -- Olympian 9 and Nemean 3 : the poet assumes different attitudes to a central cosmological tenet.
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Pindar--Criticism and interpretation.
Cosmology, Ancient, in literature. Praise in literature.