Seer and the City

Religion, Politics, and Colonial Ideology in Ancient Greece

AvMargaret Foster

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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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 and his dependence on Delphi, the colonial oracle par excellence, entails a corresponding suppression of the seer. Foster explains why the seer's authority conflicts with that of the founder and investigates a sequence of literary works from a range of genres that showcase this dynamic. The first study to analyze the seer and the Delphi-sanctioned founder relationally, this volume illuminates the contests between religious and political powers in archaic and classical Greece.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-01-26
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520295001

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Margaret Foster is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Indiana University.

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"Foster’s central observation about the striking absence of a certain style of religious expert where we might well expect them is new and important for historians of ancient religion and colonialism alike. So too, her writing is clear and the overall argument is well-constructed."

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AcknowledgmentsConventions and AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Beyond Entrails and Omens: Herodotus’s Teisamenos and the Talismanic Seer at War2. Sailing to Sicily: Theoklymenos and Odysseus in the Odyssey3. Suppressing the Seer in Colonial Discourse: Delphic Consultations and the Seer in the City4. Th e Disappearance of Melampous in Bacchylides’ Ode 115. Hagesias as Sunoikister: Mantic Authority and Colonial Ideology in Pindar’s Olympian 66. Amphiaraos, Alkmaion, and Delphi’s Oracular MonopolyConclusionBibliographyIndexIndex Locorum