The seer and the city: religion, politics, and colonial ideology in ancient Greece

"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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Main Author: Foster, Margaret 1977- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Oakland, California University of Californiarnia Press [2017]
In:Year: 2017
Series/Journal:The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Greece (Antiquity) / Religious policy / Prophet / Colony
B Greece (Antiquity) / Colony / Seer (Religion)
RelBib Classification:BE Greco-Roman religions
Further subjects:B Prophets Greece
B Greece Colonies
B Prophets (Greece)
B Religion And Politics History Greece
B Hero (Greek mythology)
B Religion And Politics (Greece) History
B Oracles, Greek
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