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Contents 8 Preface 10 Chapter 1. Introduction 12 Chapter 2. Gnomai as a source of cosmological reflection 22 The nature of gnomai according to modern scholarship 23 Ancient thinking on gnomai 26 The "true point" of gnomai 38 Chapter 3. The gnomic expression of cosmology in Pindar 40 Definitions and assumptions 40 The elemental forces: Fate, god, nature and man 43 The human condition 65 Man in society 83 Chapter 4. Cosmology in action: An analysis of selected odes 114 Olympian 12: An immigrant and his adopted city 116 Isthmian 4: — 122 Olympian 13: Praising an ambitious family 142 Chapter 5. The poet as mediator of cosmology 172 Isthmian 4: The poet modifies a cosmological premise 175 Olympian 13: The poet demonstrates cosmological principles 178 Cosmology and the poet in short odes 180 Olympian 9 and Nemean 3: The poet assumes different attitudes to a central cosmological tenet 188 Summary remarks 202 Chapter 6. Conclusion 206 Bibliography 210 General Index 220 Index of Greek Words 226 Index of Passages Cited 228 Copyright Page 240
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- Author
- Boeke, Hanna.
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Poetry, American Poetry, Humanities
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