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Author Boeke, Hanna, author

Title The value of victory in Pindar's odes : gnomai, cosmology and the role of the poet / by Hanna Boeke
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 230 pages)
Series Mnemosyne bibliotheca classica Batava, 0169-8958 ; volume 285
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 285.
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
Summary Investigates the cosmological context of Pindar's odes, and how it influences his presentation of praise. This work gives an overview of cosmological ideas based on gnomai which is complemented by detailed literary analyses
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-208) and indexes
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Subject 880-01 Pindar -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT 880-01/(S Πίνδαρος, 5ος/6ος αι. π.Χ -- Κριτική και ερμηνεία
Pindar fast
Pindar; Epinikia. idszbz
PÍndaro, approximately 518-438 A. C. larpcal
Pindaros, approximately 518-approximately 438 f.Kr -- analys och tolkning. sao
Pindarus. swd
Carmina. swd
Subject Cosmology, Ancient, in literature.
Praise in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
Cosmology, Ancient, in literature
Praise in literature
Kosmologie
Sentenz
Literatura grega clássica.
Poesia lírica.
Kosmologi i litteraturen.
Grekiska poeter -- antiken.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789047422822
9047422821
1281921777
9781281921772
9786611921774
661192177X