| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 513 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-500) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Mapping out communitas : performances of theōria in their sacred and political context / Barbara Kowalzig -- Hiketai and theōroi 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 theōria / 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. Takács -- 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 / Jaś Elsner -- Urban shrine and rural saint in fifth-century Alexandria / David Frankfurter. |
| Summary |
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 importance of pilgrimage in pagan antiquity and its ancestry to later Christian practice. - ;This book presents a range of case-studies of pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman antiquity, drawing on a wide variety of evidence. It rejects the usual reluctance to accept the category of pilgrimage in pagan polytheism. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Greece -- History.
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Pilgrims and pilgrimages. |
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Greece. |
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History. |
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Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Rome -- History.
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Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- History.
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Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages. |
| Indexed Term |
Pilgrimage |
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Graeco-Roman antiquity |
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Early Christian antiquity |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Elsner, Jaś.
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Rutherford, Ian, 1959-
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| Added Title |
Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and early Christian antiquity |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman & early Christian antiquity. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005 (DLC) 2006279026 |
| ISBN |
0199250790 |
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9780199250790 |
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9781429470612 (electronic book) |
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1429470615 (electronic book) |
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0191514381 |
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9780191514388 |
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0199250790 (hardback) |
| Standard No. |
9780199250790 |
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