A01=Margaret Foster
ancient greece
ancient greek politics
ancient world
antiquity
archaic
archaic greece
Author_Margaret Foster
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classical
classical greece
classical world
colonial
colonial discourse
colonialism
culture
delphi
divination
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greek culture
greek politics
hellenistic period
ideological
ideology
literary analysis
literary texts
oracle
politics
religion
religious studies
seercraft
seers
Product details
- ISBN 9780520295001
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jan 2018
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Margaret Foster is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Indiana University.
