The seer and the city : religion, politics, and colonial ideology in ancient Greece /

The seer and the city : religion, politics, and colonial ideology in ancient Greece /

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Author / Creator:	Foster, Margaret, 1977- author.
Imprint:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 217 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
Subject:	Religion and politics -- Greece -- History. Oracles, Greek. Prophets -- Greece. Hero (Greek mythology) Greek colonies. Hero (Greek mythology) Oracles, Greek. Prophets. Religion and politics. Greece -- Colonies. Greece. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12589412

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ISBN:	9780520967915 0520967917 9780520295001
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 12, 2018).
Summary:	"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.
Other form:	Print version: Foster, Margaret, 1977- Seer and the city. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] 9780520295001

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Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xii, 217 pages).
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:	9780520967915 0520967917 9780520295001