Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity: Seeing the Gods

Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity: Seeing the Gods

ISBN-10:
0199250790
ISBN-13:
9780199250790
Pub. Date:
03/02/2006
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0199250790
ISBN-13:
9780199250790
Pub. Date:
03/02/2006
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity: Seeing the Gods

Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity: Seeing the Gods

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199250790
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 03/02/2006
Pages: 532
Product dimensions: 8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 1.31(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Mapping out Communitas: Performances of Theoria in their Sacred and Political Context, Barbara Kowalzig2. Hiketai and Theoroi at Epidaurus, Fred Naiden3. Pilgrimage to the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi: Patterns of Public and Private Consultation, Michael Arnush4. Pilgrimage and Greek Religion: Sacred and Secular in the Pagan Polis, Scott Scullion5. Downstream to the Cat-Goddess: Herodotus on Egyptian Pilgrimage, Ian Rutherford6. The Philosopher at the Festival: Plato's Transformation of Traditional Theoria, Andrea Wilson-Nightingale7. The Body in Space: Visual Dynamics in Graeco-Roman Healing Pilgrimage, Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis8. Mucianus and a Touch of the Miraculous: Pilgrimage and Tourism in Roman Asia Minor, George Williamson9. Pilgrimage as Elite Habitus: Educated Pilgrims in Sacred Landscape during the Second Sophistic, Marco Galli10. The Construction of Religious Space in Pausanias, William Hutton11. A Journey to the End of the World, Andrew Fear12. Pilgrims and Ethnographers: In Search of the Syrian Goddess, J. L. Lightfoot13. Divine and Human Feet: Records of Pilgrims Honouring Isis, Sarolta A. Takacs14. Rabbi Aqiba Comes to Rome: A Jewish Pilgrimage in Reverse, David Noy15. ‘Interningled until the end of time': Ambiguity as a Central Condition of Early Christian Pilgrimage, Wendy Pullan16. Piety and Passion: Contest and Consensus in Audiences for Early Christian Pilgrimage, Jas' Elsner17. Urban Shrine and Rural Saint in Fifth-Century Alexandria, David Frankfurter
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