Boeke, Hanna. <br/><br/>
The value of victory in Pindar's odes  gnomai, cosmology and the role of the poet /  [electronic resource] : 
by Hanna Boeke. 
 - Leiden ;  Boston :  Brill,  2007. 
 - x, 230 p. ;  25 cm. 
 - Mnemosyne bibliotheca classica Batava,  v. 285  0169-8958 ; .
 - Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava.  Supplementum ;  285. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-208) and indexes. 
<br/><br/>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. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Pindar--Criticism and interpretation.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cosmology, Ancient, in literature.<br/>Praise in literature.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PA4276  / .B75 2007eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>884/.01