The Seer and the City

Religion, Politics, and Colonial Ideology in Ancient Greece

Margaret Foster (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2024
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-40142-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Margaret Foster is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Indiana University.

Acknowledgments
Conventions and Abbreviations

Introduction
1. Beyond Entrails and Omens: Herodotus’s Teisamenos and the Talismanic Seer at War
2. Sailing to Sicily: Theoklymenos and Odysseus in the Odyssey
3. Suppressing the Seer in Colonial Discourse: Delphic Consultations and the Seer in the City
4. Th e Disappearance of Melampous in Bacchylides’ Ode 11
5. Hagesias as Sunoikister: Mantic Authority and Colonial Ideology in Pindar’s Olympian 6
6. Amphiaraos, Alkmaion, and Delphi’s Oracular Monopoly
Conclusion

Bibliography
Index
Index Locorum

Erscheinungsdatum	30.04.2024
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10	0-520-40142-5 / 0520401425
ISBN-13	978-0-520-40142-6 / 9780520401426
Zustand	Neuware