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

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Main Author: Boeke, Hanna
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
Series:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 285.
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245 1 4 |a The value of victory in Pindar's odes  |h [electronic resource] :  |b gnomai, cosmology and the role of the poet /  |c by Hanna Boeke. 
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300 |a x, 230 p. 
490 1 |a Mnemosyne bibliotheca classica Batava,  |x 0169-8958 ;  |v v. 285 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-208) and indexes. 
505 0 |a 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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