The value of victory in Pindar's odes gnomai, cosmology and the role of the poet /

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Autore principale: Boeke, Hanna
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Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
Serie:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 285.
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Sommario:
  • 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.