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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 colonial city's foun...

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VerfasserIn: Foster, Margaret (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Online-Ressource Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oakland, California : University of California Press , 2018
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Online Zugang:http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/upso-ebooks-altertum/dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520295001.001.0001
Verantwortlich:Margaret Foster
E-Book-Pakete:Oxford University Press : University Press Scholarship Online / Archaeology
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Zusammenfassung: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 colonial city's founder and his dependence on Delphi, the colonial oracle par excellence, entails a corresponding suppression of the seer
Beschreibung:Previously issued in print: 2018
Includes bibliographical references and index
Zielgruppe - Audience: Specialized
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
ISBN:9780520967915