The Seer and the City

The Seer and the City
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : 9780520967915
ISBN-13 : 0520967917
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Download or read book The Seer and the City written by Margaret Foster and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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