TY - BOOK AU - Boeke,Hanna ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - The value of victory in Pindar's odes: gnomai, cosmology and the role of the poet T2 - Mnemosyne bibliotheca classica Batava, AV - PA4276 .B75 2007 U1 - 884/.01 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Pindar KW - Cosmology, Ancient, in literature KW - Praise in literature KW - Electronic books N1 - 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; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=467943 ER -