The seer and the city : religion, politics, and colonial ideology in ancient Greece

1. Verfasser: Foster, Margaret, 1977- , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017].
Umfang/Format: xii, 217 pages ; 24 cm.
Schlagworte:
Parallelausgabe: Foster, Margaret, 1977- author., Seer and the city (Online version:) | ISSN: 9780520967915
Inhalte/Bestandteile: 2 Datensätze
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Beyond entrails and omens : Herodotus' Teisamenos and the Talismanic seer at war
  • Sailing to Sicily : Theoklymenos and Odysseus in the odyssey
  • Suppressing the seer in colonial discourse
  • The disappearance of Melampous in Bacchylides' Ode 11
  • Hagesias as Sunoikistêr : mantic authority and colonial ideology in Pindar's
  • Sixth Olympian ode
  • Amphiaraos, Alkmaion, and Delphi's oracular monopoly.