عنوان

The seer and the city :

(Number (ISBN

0520967917

(Number (ISBN

9780520967915

Erroneous ISBN

9780520295001

Title Proper

The seer and the city :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

religion, politics, and colonial ideology in ancient Greece /

First Statement of Responsibility

Margaret Foster.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Oakland, California :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of California Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2017]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xii, 217 pages).

Series Title

Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Text of Note

Beyond entrails and omens : Herodotus' Teisamenos and the Talismanic seer at war -- Sailing to Sicily : Theoklymenos and Odysseus in the odyssey -- Suppressing the seer in colonial discourse -- The disappearance of Melampous in Bacchylides' Ode 11 -- Hagesias as Sunoikistêr : mantic authority and colonial ideology in Pindar's -- Sixth Olympian ode -- Amphiaraos, Alkmaion, and Delphi's oracular monopoly.

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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."--Provided by publisher.

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JSTOR

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22573/ctt1zjtvws

Title

Seer and the city.

International Standard Book Number

9780520295001

Hero (Greek mythology)

Oracles, Greek.

Prophets-- Greece.

Religion and politics-- Greece-- History.

BODY, MIND & SPIRIT-- Spirituality-- Paganism & Neo-Paganism.

Greek colonies.

Hero (Greek mythology)

HISTORY-- Ancient-- Greece.

Oracles, Greek.

Prophets.

Religion and politics.

RELIGION-- Antiquities & Archaeology.

Greece, Colonies.

Greece.

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7

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OCC-- 036020

REL-- 072000

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Foster, Margaret,1977-

Date of Transaction

20200822115218.0

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[Book]

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