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001 2007046054
003 DLC
005 20090828071922.0
008 071106s2007 ne b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2007046054
020 $a9789004158481 (hardback : alk. paper)
020 $a9004158480 (hardback : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn180989634
035 $a(OCoLC)180989634
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dC#P$dBAKER$dOHX$dBWX$dCDX$dDLC
050 00 $aPA4276$b.B75 2007
082 00 $a884/.01$222
100 1 $aBoeke, Hanna.
245 14 $aThe value of victory in Pindar's odes :$bgnomai, cosmology and the role of the poet /$cby Hanna Boeke.
260 $aLeiden ;$aBoston :$bBrill,$c2007.
300 $ax, 230 p. ;$c25 cm.
490 1 $aMnemosyne bibliotheca classica Batava,$x0169-8958 ;$vv. 285
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [199]-208) and indexes.
505 0 $aGnomai 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.
600 00 $aPindar$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aCosmology, Ancient, in literature.
650 0 $aPraise in literature.
830 0 $aMnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava.$pSupplementum ;$v285.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip084/2007046054.html