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 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...

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Main Author: Foster, Margaret
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2018.
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