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The Seer and the City
Margaret Foster
其他書名
Religion, Politics, and Colonial Ideology in Ancient Greece
出版Univ of California Press, 2024-05-28
主題History / GeneralHistory / Ancient / GreeceReligion / GeneralReligion / Antiquities & ArchaeologyReligion / Religion, Politics & StateReligion / Ancient
ISBN05204014259780520401426
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=1HT5EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.