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Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman & early Christian antiquity : seeing the gods /

The essays in this volume examine the range of pilgrimage practices in Graeco-Roman antiquity and the early Church. From healing to oracles, from collective civic delegations to individual pilgrims seeking salvation, from localized sacred topographies to empire-wide travel, this book shows the impor...

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Други автори: Elsner, Jas., Rutherford, Ian, 1959-
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman & early Christian antiquity.
Съдържание:
  • Introduction
  • Mapping out communitas : performances of theo„ria in their sacred and political context / Barbara Kowalzig
  • Hiketai and theo„roi at Epidauros / Fred Naiden
  • Pilgrimage to the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi : patterns of public and private consultation / Michael Arnush
  • "Pilgrimage" and Greek religion : sacred and secular in the pagan polis / Scott Scullion
  • Down-stream to the cat-goddess : Herodotus on Egyptian pilgrimage / Ian Rutherford
  • Philosopher at the festival : Plato's transformation of traditional theo„ria / Andrea Wilson Nightingale
  • Body in space : visual dynamics in Graeco-Roman healing pilgrimage / Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis
  • Mucianus and a touch of the miraculous : pilgrimage and tourism in Roman Asia Minor / George Williamson
  • Pilgrimage as elite habitus : educated pilgrims in sacred landscape during the Second Sophistic / Marco Galli
  • Construction of religious space in Pausanias / William Hutton
  • Journey to the end of the world / Andrew Fear
  • Pilgrims and ethnographers : in search of the Syrian goddess / J.L. Lightfoot
  • Divine and human feet: records of pilgrims honouring Isis / Sarolta A. Takacs
  • Rabbi Aqiba comes to Rome : a Jewish pilgrimage in reverse? / David Noy
  • "Intermingled until the end of time" : ambiguity as a central condition of early Christian pilgrimage / Wendy Pullan
  • Piety and passion : contest and consensus in the audiences for early Christian pilgrimage / Jas Elsner
  • Urban shrine and rural saint in fifth-century Alexandria / David Frankfurter.