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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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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California
: University of California Press
, 2018
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/upso-ebooks-altertum/dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520295001.001.0001 |
| Author Notes: | Margaret Foster |
| E-Book Packages: | Oxford University Press : University Press Scholarship Online / Archaeology |
| Summary: | 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 |
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| Item Description: | Previously issued in print: 2018 Includes bibliographical references and index Zielgruppe - Audience: Specialized |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource) |
| ISBN: | 9780520967915 |
