The Value Of Victory In Pindars Odes: Gnomai, Cosmology and the Role of the Poet

The Value of Victory in Pindar's Odes (2007)......Page 1
Mnemosyne - Volume 285......Page 3
ISBN: 9789004158481......Page 5
--> CONTENTS......Page 8
PREFACE......Page 10
chapter one - INTRODUCTION......Page 12
chapter two - GNOMAI AS A SOURCE OF COSMOLOGICAL REFLECTION......Page 22
The nature of gnomai according to modern scholarship......Page 23
Education through gnomai......Page 26
Gnomai in rhetoric......Page 30
The value of gnomai in education and rhetoric......Page 32
Pindar and gnomai......Page 35
The “true point” of gnomai......Page 38
Definitions and assumptions......Page 40
Fate and fortune......Page 43
God......Page 48
Nature......Page 57
The human condition......Page 65
Man in society......Page 83
The household and family relationships......Page 88
Relationships outside the oikos......Page 92
chapter four - COSMOLOGY IN ACTION: AN ANALYSIS OF SELECTED ODES......Page 114
Olympian 12: An immigrant and his adopted city......Page 116
Isthmian 4: Creating charis for an ill-favoured victor......Page 122
An Olympic victor in the shadow of his family......Page 142
The poet’s balancing act: Tempering ambition with restraint......Page 149
chapter five - THE POET AS MEDIATOR OF COSMOLOGY......Page 172
Isthmian 4: The poet modifies a cosmological premise......Page 175
Olympian 13: The poet demonstrates cosmological principles......Page 178
Cosmology and the poet in short odes......Page 180
Olympian 9 and Nemean 3: The poet assumes different attitudes to a central cosmological tenet......Page 188
Summary remarks......Page 202
chapter six - CONCLUSION......Page 206
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 210
GENERAL INDEX......Page 220
INDEX OF GREEK WORDS......Page 226
INDEX OF PASSAGES CITED......Page 228
COPYRIGHT PAGE......Page 240