The Seer and the City

"It is not easy to write successful 'cultural poetics' work because one is bound to enter a variety of different fields, but this is done deftly here. The results are excellent and raise important questions for many different areas of scholarship."--Nigel Nicholson, Walter Mintz Professor of Classics, Reed College "This book makes an important intervention into our understanding of the incredibly rich and relatively untapped collection of material that can be called the discourse of the seer by focusing on and elaborating the ways that the Greeks imagined the seer rather than on the instrumental and functional details of how prophecy worked in archaic and classical Greece."--Carol Dougherty, Professor of Classical Studies, Wellesley College