{"product_id":"the-seer-and-the-city-margaret-foster-9780520295001","title":"The Seer and the City: Religion, Politics, and Colonial Ideology in Ancient Greece","description":"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, \u003ci\u003eThe Seer and the City\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the contests between religious and political powers in archaic and classical Greece.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Margaret Foster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520295005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520295001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/26\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d","brand":"Margaret Foster","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44119768072447,"sku":"9780520295001","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c99d234f-c837-4fb8-aaa1-cdf44f59a602.jpg?v=1687410843","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-seer-and-the-city-margaret-foster-9780520295001","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}