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gnomai, cosmology and the role of the poet

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Brill
Language
English
Pages
230

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Subjects
Cosmology, Ancient, in literature, Praise in literature, Criticism and interpretation
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Pindar

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The value of victory in Pindar's odes: gnomai, cosmology and the role of the poet
2007, Brill
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Value of Victory in Pindar's Odes: Gnomai, Cosmology and the Role of the Poet
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Table of 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

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-208) and indexes

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Leiden, Boston
Series
Mnemosyne bibliotheca classica Batava -- v. 285, Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava -- 285

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Library of Congress
PA4276 .B75 2007

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Pagination
x, 230 p. ;
Number of pages
230

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Open Library
OL18299275M
Internet Archive
valuevictorypind00boek
ISBN 10
9004158480
ISBN 13
9789004158481
LCCN
2007046054
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2926966

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