The Seer and the City : Religion, Politics, and Colonial Ideology in Ancient Greece
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0520295005
ISBN-13
9780520295001
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 26th, 2018
Print length
232 Pages
Weight
452 grams
Dimensions
16.00 x 23.60 x 2.50 cms
Product Classification:
Classical history / classical civilisationReligion & politicsAncient religions & mythologies
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Seers featured prominently in ancient Greek culture, but they rarely appear in colonial discourse from the archaic and classical periods. Margaret Foster exposes the ideological motivations behind this discrepancy and reveals how colonial discourse's privileging of the city's founder and his dependence on Delphi, the colonial oracle par excellence, entails a corresponding suppression of the seer. Foster explains why the seer's authority conflicts with that of the founder and investigates a sequence of literary works from a range of genres that showcase this dynamic. The first study to analyze the seer and the Delphi-sanctioned founder relationally, this volume illuminates the contests between religious and political powers in archaic and classical Greece.
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