RT Book
T1 The seer and the city: religion, politics, and colonial ideology in ancient Greece
T2 The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
A1 Foster, Margaret 1977-
LA English
PP Oakland, California
PB University of Californiarnia Press
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1635923409
AB "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
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BL795.P57
SN 9780520295001
K1 Religion And Politics : History : Greece
K1 Oracles, Greek
K1 Prophets : Greece
K1 Hero (Greek mythology)
K1 Religion And Politics : Greece : History
K1 Greece : Colonies