Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity
Seeing the Gods
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 January 2006
- ISBN 9780199250790
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages532 pages
- Size 223x146x35 mm
- Weight 866 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 28 halftones and line drawings 0
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
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 and affirms the significance of sacred mobility not only as an important factor in understanding ancient religion and its topographies but also as vitally ancestral to later Christian practice.
...a vital contribution to the study of ancient pilgrimage and to studies in ancient religion...one of the essential works in the field.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Mapping out Communitas: Performances of Theoria in their Sacred and Political Context
Hiketai and Theoroi at Epidaurus
Pilgrimage to the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi: Patterns of Public and Private Consultation
Pilgrimage and Greek Religion: Sacred and Secular in the Pagan Polis
Downstream to the Cat-Goddess: Herodotus on Egyptian Pilgrimage
The Philosopher at the Festival: Plato's Transformation of Traditional Theoria
The Body in Space: Visual Dynamics in Graeco-Roman Healing Pilgrimage
Mucianus and a Touch of the Miraculous: Pilgrimage and Tourism in Roman Asia Minor
Pilgrimage as Elite Habitus: Educated Pilgrims in Sacred Landscape during the Second Sophistic
The Construction of Religious Space in Pausanias
A Journey to the End of the World
Pilgrims and Ethnographers: In Search of the Syrian Goddess
Divine and Human Feet: Records of Pilgrims Honouring Isis
Rabbi Aqiba Comes to Rome: A Jewish Pilgrimage in Reverse
`Interningled until the end of time': Ambiguity as a Central Condition of Early Christian Pilgrimage
Piety and Passion: Contest and Consensus in Audiences for Early Christian Pilgrimage
Urban Shrine and Rural Saint in Fifth-Century Alexandria
