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Titelbeschreibung
Boeke, Hanna (auth.):
The value of victory in Pindar's odes : gnomai, cosmology and the role of the poet. By Hanna Boeke Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, Boston, 2007. Large octavo (245 x 165 mm), publisher's illustrated hardcover, X, 230 pp., previous owner's stamp to front fly leaf (Exlibris H. S. Versnel), a well preserved copy. [MnS - Mnemosyne Supplements; 285]. - - Contents/Inhalt : 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. Description based upon print version of record.; Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-208) and indexes.; English ||| Pindar ? Criticism and interpretation; Cosmology, Ancient, in literature; Praise in literature ?- Pindar ? Kritik und Interpretation; Kosmologie, Antike, in der Literatur; Lob in der Literatur - [00B | SOD | oR. [MnS - Mnemosyne Supplements; 285]. - ISBN: 9789004158481. - Contents/Inhalt : 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. Description based upon print version of record.; Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-208) and indexes.; English ||| Pindar ? Criticism and interpretation; Cosmology, Ancient, in literature; Praise in literature ?- Pindar ? Kritik und Interpretation; Kosmologie, Antike, in der Literatur; Lob in der Literatur - [00B | SOD | oR ]. Anbieter: Bestellnummer: 001136 Versandkosten: 5.00 EUR |
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