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

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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Foster, Margaret (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2018]
Temas:
Hero (Greek mythology)
Hero (Greek mythology).
Oracles, Greek.
Prophets > Greece.
Religion and politics > Greece > History.
HISTORY / Ancient / Greece.
ancient greece.
ancient greek politics.
ancient world.
antiquity.
archaic greece.
archaic.
classical greece.
classical world.
classical.
colonial discourse.
colonial.
colonialism.
culture.
delphi.
divination.
greek culture.
greek politics.
hellenistic period.
ideological.
ideology.
literary analysis.
literary texts.
oracle.
politics.
religion.
religious studies.
seercraft.
seers.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 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. The Disappearance of Melampous in Bacchylides' Ode 11
  • 5. Hagesias as Sunoikistēr: Mantic Authority and Colonial Ideology in Pindar's Olympian 6
  • 6. Amphiaraos, Alkmaion, and Delphi's Oracular Monopoly
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Index Locorum

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