Jas Elsner / Ian Rutherford (eds.)

Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity

Seeing the Gods
Herausgeber: Elsner, Jas'; Rutherford, Ian

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 532
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 821g
• ISBN-13: 9780199250790
• ISBN-10: 0199250790
• Artikelnr.: 24805904

Autorenporträt

Jas' Elsner is Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Ian Rutherford is Professor of Greek, University of Reading.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Barbara Kowalzig: Mapping out Communitas: Performances of Theoria
in their Sacred and Political Context
* 2: Fred Naiden: Hiketai and Theoroi at Epidaurus
* 3: Michael Arnush: Pilgrimage to the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi:
Patterns of Public and Private Consultation
* 4: Scott Scullion: Pilgrimage and Greek Religion: Sacred and Secular
in the Pagan Polis
* 5: Ian Rutherford: Downstream to the Cat-Goddess: Herodotus on
Egyptian Pilgrimage
* 6: Andrea Wilson-Nightingale: The Philosopher at the Festival:
Plato's Transformation of Traditional Theoria
* 7: Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis: The Body in Space: Visual Dynamics in
Graeco-Roman Healing Pilgrimage
* 8: George Williamson: Mucianus and a Touch of the Miraculous:
Pilgrimage and Tourism in Roman Asia Minor
* 9: Marco Galli: Pilgrimage as Elite Habitus: Educated Pilgrims in
Sacred Landscape during the Second Sophistic
* 10: William Hutton: The Construction of Religious Space in Pausanias
* 11: Andrew Fear: A Journey to the End of the World
* 12: J. L. Lightfoot: Pilgrims and Ethnographers: In Search of the
Syrian Goddess
* 13: Sarolta A. Takacs: Divine and Human Feet: Records of Pilgrims
Honouring Isis
* 14: David Noy: Rabbi Aqiba Comes to Rome: A Jewish Pilgrimage in
Reverse
* 15: Wendy Pullan: `Interningled until the end of time': Ambiguity as
a Central Condition of Early Christian Pilgrimage
* 16: Jas' Elsner: Piety and Passion: Contest and Consensus in
Audiences for Early Christian Pilgrimage
* 17: David Frankfurter: Urban Shrine and Rural Saint in Fifth-Century
Alexandria