The Seer and the City : Religion, Politics, and Colonial Ideology in Ancient Greece. [1st ed.] 9780520967915, 0520967917
Seers featured prominently in ancient Greek culture, but they rarely appear in archaic and classical colonial discourse.
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Table of contents :
Acknowledgments Conventions and Abbreviations Introduction 1. Beyond Entrails and Omens: Herodotus's Teisamenos and the Talismanic Seer at War 2. Sailing to Sicily: Theoklymenos and Odysseus in the Odyssey 3. Suppressing the Seer in Colonial Discourse: Delphic Consultations and the Seer in the City 4. Th e Disappearance of Melampous in Bacchylides' Ode 11 5. Hagesias as Sunoikister: Mantic Authority and Colonial Ideology in Pindar's Olympian 6 6. Amphiaraos, Alkmaion, and Delphi's Oracular Monopoly Conclusion Bibliography Index Index Locorum
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