The value of victory in Pindar's odes gnomai, cosmology and the role of the poet /
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2007.
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| Series: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ;
285. |
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Table of 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.