The gnomai, cosmology and the role of the poet Boeke, Hanna. creator ebrary, Inc text bibliography Electronic books. ne Leiden Boston Brill 2007 monographic eng

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x, 230 p. 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. by Hanna Boeke. Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-208) and indexes. 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 PA4276 .B75 2007eb 884/.01 Supplementum http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10270864 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10270864 CaPaEBR 071106 ebr10270864