| The Seer and the City: Religion, Politics, and Colonial Ideology in Ancient Greece Contributor(s): Foster, Margaret (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520295005 ISBN-13: 9780520295001 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Ancient - History | Ancient - Greece - Religion | Religion, Politics & State |
| Dewey: 292.61 |
| LCCN: 2017029447 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.00 lbs) 232 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Seers featured prominently in ancient Greek culture, but they rarely appear in archaic and classical colonial discourse. Margaret Foster exposes the ideological motivations behind this discrepancy and reveals how colonial discourse privileged the city's founder and his dependence on Delphi, the colonial oracle par excellence, at the expense of the independent seer. Investigating a sequence of literary texts, Foster explores the tactics the Greeks devised both to leverage and suppress the extraordinary cultural capital of seers. The first cultural history of the seer, The Seer and the City illuminates the contests between religious and political powers in archaic and classical Greece. |