The value of victory in Pindar's odes [electronic resource] : gnomai, cosmology and the role of the poet / by Hanna Boeke.

By: Boeke, HannaContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica BatavaSupplementum ; 285.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007Description: x, 230 pSubject(s): Pindar -- Criticism and interpretation | Cosmology, Ancient, in literature | Praise in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 884/.01 LOC classification: PA4276 | .B75 2007Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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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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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