The value of victory in Pindar's odes (Record no. 22806)
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| fixed length control field | 02321nam a2200361 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 884/.01 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Boeke, Hanna. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The value of victory in Pindar's odes |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Leiden ; |
| -- | Boston : |
| Name of publisher | Brill, |
| Year of publication | 2007. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | x, 230 p. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Mnemosyne bibliotheca classica Batava, |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Cosmology, Ancient, in literature. |
| Topical Term | Praise in literature. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10270864 |
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