TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boeke,Hanna
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - The value of victory in Pindar's odes: gnomai, cosmology and the role of the poet 
T2  - Mnemosyne bibliotheca classica Batava,
AV  - PA4276 .B75 2007eb
U1  - 884/.01 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Pindar
KW  - Cosmology, Ancient, in literature
KW  - Praise in literature
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10270864
ER  -