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The value of victory in Pindar's odes : gnomai, cosmology and the role of the poet /
Investigates the cosmological context of Pindar's odes, and how it influences his presentation of praise. This work gives an overview of cosmological ideas based on gnomai which is complemented by detailed literary analyses.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2007.
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| Colección: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ;
285. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.