02319nam a2200361 a 4500 ebr10270864 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 071106s2007 ne sb 001 0 eng 2007046054 9789004158481 (hardback : alk. paper) 9004158480 (hardback : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)646789608 PA4276 .B75 2007eb 884/.01 22 Boeke, Hanna. The value of victory in Pindar's odes [electronic resource] : gnomai, cosmology and the role of the poet / by Hanna Boeke. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007. x, 230 p. Mnemosyne bibliotheca classica Batava, 0169-8958 ; v. 285 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Pindar Criticism and interpretation. Cosmology, Ancient, in literature. Praise in literature. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 285. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10270864 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 7972 7972