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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.
Prophets --- Oracles, Greek. --- Religion and politics --- History. --- Hero --- Greece --- Colonies. --- ancient greece. --- ancient greek politics. --- ancient world. --- antiquity. --- archaic greece. --- archaic. --- classical greece. --- classical world. --- classical. --- colonial discourse. --- colonial. --- colonialism. --- culture. --- delphi. --- divination. --- greek culture. --- greek politics. --- hellenistic period. --- ideological. --- ideology. --- literary analysis. --- literary texts. --- oracle. --- politics. --- religion. --- religious studies. --- seercraft. --- seers.
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Most classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the so-called colonization movement came to an end. But Robert Garland argues that the Greeks were highly mobile, that their movement was essential to the survival, success, and sheer sustainability of their society, and that this wandering became a defining characteristic of their culture. Addressing a neglected but essential subject, Wandering Greeks focuses on the diaspora of tens of thousands of people between about 700 and 325 BCE, demonstrating the degree to which Greeks were liable to be forced to leave their homes due to political upheaval, oppression, poverty, warfare, or simply a desire to better themselves. Attempting to enter into the mind-set of these wanderers, the book provides an insightful and sympathetic account of what it meant for ancient Greeks to part from everyone and everything they held dear, to start a new life elsewhere-or even to become homeless, living on the open road or on the high seas with no end to their journey in sight. Each chapter identifies a specific kind of "wanderer," including the overseas settler, the deportee, the evacuee, the asylum-seeker, the fugitive, the economic migrant, and the itinerant, and the book also addresses repatriation and the idea of the "portable polis." The result is a vivid and unique portrait of ancient Greece as a culture of displaced persons.
Greeks --- Grecs --- Migrations --- History --- Histoire --- Greece --- Grèce --- Social conditions --- Civilization --- Conditions sociales --- Civilisation --- Ancient --- Greece. --- General. --- Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C. --- Greece -- Social conditions -- To 146 B.C. --- Greeks -- Migrations -- History -- To 1500. --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- Grèce --- HISTORY / Ancient / General. --- HISTORY / Ancient / Greece. --- Ethnology --- Mediterranean race --- Archaic Greece. --- Athenian law. --- Greek antiquity. --- Greek citizenship. --- Greek civilization. --- Greek identity. --- Greek-speaking world. --- Ionian migration. --- L'esprit de retour. --- Mediterranean world. --- adaptability. --- ancient Greece. --- anestios. --- aphrtr. --- apolis. --- asulia. --- asylum-seeker. --- asylum. --- civic identity. --- criminals. --- cultural homogeneity. --- democracy. --- deportation. --- deportee. --- deportees. --- diaspora. --- displaced persons. --- economic migrant. --- economic migrants. --- economic migration. --- entrepreneurship. --- ethnic cleansing. --- evacuation. --- evacuee. --- exile. --- exiles. --- familial identity. --- financial destitution. --- fugitives. --- hostilities. --- human resource. --- humanitarian agencies. --- itinerants. --- land hunger. --- legal battles. --- local sanctuary. --- long-distance travelers. --- mass deportation. --- migrants. --- migration. --- mobility. --- oikos. --- oligarch persuasion. --- overpopulation. --- overseas settler. --- ownership. --- panhellenic institutions. --- phratry. --- phug. --- pioneers. --- polis. --- political identity. --- political opponents. --- political pressure. --- political upheavals. --- portable polis. --- prosecution. --- radical upheaval. --- refuge. --- refugees. --- relocation. --- repatriation. --- resource fluctuations. --- returnees. --- sanctuary. --- servile labor. --- settlements. --- settlers. --- social identity. --- starvation. --- stasis. --- tyranny. --- voluntary flight. --- wanderer. --- wartime evacuations.
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This book addresses the many interlocking problems in understanding the modes of performance, dissemination, and transmission of Greek poetry of the seventh to the fifth centuries BC whose first performers were a choral group, sometimes singing in a ritual context, sometimes in more secular celebrations of victories in competitive games. It explores the different ways such a group presented itself and was perceived by its audiences; the place of tyrants, of other prominent individuals and of communities in commissioning and funding choral performances and in securing the further circulation of the songs' texts and music; the social and political role of choral songs and the extent to which such songs continued to be performed both inside and outside the immediate family and polis-community, whether chorally or in archaic Greece's important cultural engine, the elite male symposium, with the consequence that Athenian theatre audiences could be expected to appreciate allusion to or reworking of such poetic forms in tragedy and comedy; and how various types of performance contributed to transmission of written texts of the poems until they were collected and edited by Alexandrian scholars in the third and second centuries BC.
Drama - Chorus (Greek drama). --- Drama -- Chorus (Greek drama). --- Greek drama (Tragedy) - History and criticism. --- Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism. --- Greek language - Accents and accentuation. --- Greek language -- Accents and accentuation. --- Greek language - Metrics and rhythmics. --- Greek language -- Metrics and rhythmics. --- Greek poetry - History and criticism - Theory, etc. --- Greek poetry -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. --- Greek poetry --- Greek language --- Drama --- Greek drama (Tragedy) --- Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- Theory, etc --- History and criticism --- Metrics and rhythmics --- Accents and accentuation --- Chorus (Greek drama) --- Chorus (Drama) --- Greek drama --- Greek literature --- Chorus --- E-books --- Theory, etc. --- Metrics and rhythmics. --- Accents and accentuation. --- History and criticism. --- Drama - Chorus (Greek drama) --- Drama -- Chorus (Greek drama) --- Greek drama (Tragedy) - History and criticism --- Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism --- Greek language - Accents and accentuation --- Greek language -- Accents and accentuation --- Greek language - Metrics and rhythmics --- Greek language -- Metrics and rhythmics --- Greek poetry - History and criticism - Theory, etc --- Greek poetry -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc --- Archaic Greece. --- Choruses. --- Pan-Hellenism. --- Song Performance. --- Transmission.
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In a major revisionary approach to ancient Greek culture, Sarah Morris invokes as a paradigm the myths surrounding Daidalos to describe the profound influence of the Near East on Greece's artistic and literary origins.
Art, Greek. --- Arts --- Greek art --- Art, Aegean --- Classical antiquities --- Art, Greco-Bactrian --- History. --- Daedalus --- Δαίδαλος --- Daidalos --- Taitale --- Dédalo --- Dédale --- Acropolis. --- Aeschylus. --- Ancient Greece. --- Ancient Greek art. --- Ancient Greek comedy. --- Ancient Greek sculpture. --- Ancient Greek temple. --- Anecdote. --- Archaeology. --- Archaic Greece. --- Athenian Democracy. --- Barbarian. --- Baruch Spinoza. --- Battle of Salamis. --- Classical Athens. --- Classical Greece. --- Classical archaeology. --- Classical mythology. --- Colonies in antiquity. --- Copernican Revolution (metaphor). --- Crete. --- Criticism of religion. --- Critique. --- Culture of Greece. --- Cumae. --- Daedalus. --- Deus. --- Erechtheus. --- Etruscan civilization. --- Euripides. --- Explanation. --- Fifth-century Athens. --- First principle. --- Funeral oration (ancient Greece). --- Greco-Persian Wars. --- Greek Philosophy. --- Greek Ship. --- Greek literature. --- Greek mythology. --- Greek name. --- Greek tragedy. --- Greeks. --- Hellenistic-era warships. --- Hephaestus. --- Hermeneutics. --- Herodotus. --- Hesiod. --- Histories (Herodotus). --- Immanence. --- Ionians. --- Iphigenia in Aulis. --- Law court (ancient Athens). --- Literature. --- Lykourgos (king). --- Maimonides. --- Marrano. --- Materialism. --- Medism. --- Mycenae. --- Naval warfare. --- Northern Greece. --- Odysseus. --- Oedipus the King. --- Pantheism. --- Peloponnesian War. --- Persian people. --- Philo of Byblos. --- Philoctetes. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophical analysis. --- Philosophy. --- Phoenicia. --- Phoenician alphabet. --- Phrygians. --- Plutarch. --- Poetry. --- Politics. --- Reality. --- Reason. --- Religio. --- Religion. --- Sanchuniathon. --- Scientific revolution. --- Scythia. --- Sensibility. --- Sola scriptura. --- Sophocles. --- Teleology. --- Temple of Artemis. --- Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens. --- Terracotta. --- The Persians. --- Theatre of ancient Greece. --- Thebes, Greece. --- Themistocles. --- Theology. --- Thessaly. --- Vitruvius. --- Western Greece. --- Writing.
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