The Seer and the City: Religion, Politics, and Colonial Ideology in Ancient Greece

by Margaret Foster

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520401425
• ISBN13: 9780520401426
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"