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 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Foster, Margaret, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Series:Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
Subjects:
Religion and politics > Greece > History.
Oracles, Greek.
Prophets > Greece.
Hero (Greek mythology)
Religion et politique > Grèce > Histoire.
Oracles grecs.
Prophètes > Grèce.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Spirituality > Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
RELIGION > Antiquities & Archaeology.
HISTORY > Ancient > Greece.
Greek colonies.
Prophets.
Religion and politics.
Greece > Colonies.
Grèce > Colonies.
Greece.
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Beyond entrails and omens : Herodotus' Teisamenos and the Talismanic seer at war
  • Sailing to Sicily : Theoklymenos and Odysseus in the odyssey
  • Suppressing the seer in colonial discourse
  • The disappearance of Melampous in Bacchylides' Ode 11
  • Hagesias as Sunoikistêr : mantic authority and colonial ideology in Pindar's
  • Sixth Olympian ode
  • Amphiaraos, Alkmaion, and Delphi's oracular monopoly.

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