Boeke, Hanna.

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.


Electronic books.

PA4276 / .B75 2007

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