TY - BOOK ID - 137991535 TI - The seer and the city PY - 2017 SN - 0520967917 9780520967915 9780520295001 PB - Oakland, California DB - UniCat KW - Prophets KW - Oracles, Greek. KW - Religion and politics KW - History. KW - Hero KW - Greece KW - Colonies. KW - ancient greece. KW - ancient greek politics. KW - ancient world. KW - antiquity. KW - archaic greece. KW - archaic. KW - classical greece. KW - classical world. KW - classical. KW - colonial discourse. KW - colonial. KW - colonialism. KW - culture. KW - delphi. KW - divination. KW - greek culture. KW - greek politics. KW - hellenistic period. KW - ideological. KW - ideology. KW - literary analysis. KW - literary texts. KW - oracle. KW - politics. KW - religion. KW - religious studies. KW - seercraft. KW - seers. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137991535 AB - 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. ER -