Leisure, pleasure and healing : spa culture and medicine in ancient eastern Mediterranean /

Deals with leisure, pleasure and healing in the thermo-mineral sites in the Levant since the biblical era throughout the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, and early Moslem periods. This work looks at the question of whether the spas served as sacred cult places or popular sites of healing.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dvorjetski, Esti
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
Series:Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 116.
Subjects:
Health resorts > Middle East > History.
Mineral waters > Therapeutic use > Middle East > History.
Balneology > Middle East > History.
Hot springs > Middle East > History.
Baths, Hot > Middle East > History.
Medicine > Middle East > History.
Medicine, Ancient.
Hot springs.
Health Resorts > history
Balneology > history
History, Ancient
Hot Springs
Mineral Waters > therapeutic use
Médecine ancienne.
Sources thermales.
TRAVEL > Resorts & Spas.
Balneology
Baths, Hot
Health resorts
Hot springs
Medicine
Medicine, Ancient
Mineral waters > Therapeutic use
Geneeskrachtige bronnen.
Sociale aspecten.
Medische aspecten.
Ancient Lands
Mediterranean Region
Middle East
Midden-Oosten.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • List of Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Geological, Hydrological and Medicinal Aspects of Hot springs in the Eastern Mediterranean
  • Past and Present; Chapter Three: Medicinal Hot Springs and Healing Spas in the Graeco-Roman World; Chapter Four: Historical-Archaeological Analysis and Healing Cults of the Therapeutic Sites in the Eastern Mediterranean Basin; Chapter Five: The Healing Properties of the Thermo-mineral Baths in the Eastern Mediterranean in Ancient Times.

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