The Seer and the City: Religion, Politics, and Colonial Ideology in Ancient Greece, 1st Edition

.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.The Seer and the City: Religion, Politics, and Colonial Ideology in Ancient Greece 1st Edition is written by Margaret Foster and published by University of California Press. ISBNs for The Seer and the City are 9780520967915, 0520967917 and the print ISBNs are 9780520401426, 0520401425. Additional ISBNs include 9780520295001.