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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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Main Author:	Foster, Margaret (Author, VerfasserIn)
Document Type:	Online Resource Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oakland, California : University of California Press , 2018
Subjects:	Greece > Colonies
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

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