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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| 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 |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 513 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-500) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0199250790 9780199250790 9781429470612 1429470615 9780191716713 0191716715 9780191514388 0191514381 9786610904792 6610904790 9780199237913 0199237913 |