Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman & early Christian antiquity : seeing the gods /
This book is an innovative collection of seventeen essays by leading scholars of ancient religion on aspects of pilgrimage in Greek and Roman and Early Christian Antiquity. The period covered is roughly from 500BC till 400AD, and the types of pilgrimage studied is very broad, ranging from state dele...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- 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.