Margaret Foster The Seer and the City (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Seer and the CityCondition: NewSubtitle: Religion, Politics, and Colonial Ideology in Ancient GreeceISBN-10: 0520401425EAN: 9780520401426ISBN: 9780520401426Publisher: University of California PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/28/2024Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 13mmItem Weight: 363gAuthor: Margaret FosterGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityTopic: History, Ancient HistoryRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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