MARC Record from Miami University of Ohio

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050 00 $aPA4276$b.B75 2007
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
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