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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
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culture
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delphi
divination
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greek culture
greek politics
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literary analysis
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religion
religious studies
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seers
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Product details
- ISBN 9780520401426
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 May 2024
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.
Margaret Foster is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Indiana University.
