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The Seer and the City
Religion, Politics, and Colonial Ideology in Ancient Greece
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99,99 €*
ISBN-13:
9780520967915
Veröffentl:
2018
Seiten:
232
Autor:
Margaret Foster
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
2 - DRM Adobe
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
Acknowledgments Conventions and Abbreviations Introduction 1. Beyond Entrails and Omens: Herodotus's Teisamenos and the Talismanic Seer at War 2. Sailing to Sicily: Theoklymenos and Odysseus in the Odyssey 3. Suppressing the Seer in Colonial Discourse: Delphic Consultations and the Seer in the City 4. Th e Disappearance of Melampous in Bacchylides' Ode 11 5. Hagesias as Sunoikister: Mantic Authority and Colonial Ideology in Pindar's Olympian 6 6. Amphiaraos, Alkmaion, and Delphi's Oracular Monopoly Conclusion Bibliography Index Index Locorum