| Description |
xvii, 513 p. : ill. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [451]-500) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Mapping out communitas : performances of theoria in their sacred and political context / Barbara Kowalzig -- Hiketai and theoroi at Epidauros / Fred Naiden -- Pilgrimage to the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi : patterns of public and private consultation / Michael Arnush -- "Pilgrimage" and Greek religion : sacred and secular in the pagan polis / Scott Scullion -- Down-stream to the cat-goddess : Herodotus on Egyptian pilgrimage / Ian Rutherford -- Philosopher at the festival : Plato's transformation of traditional theoria / Andrea Wilson Nightingale -- Body in space : visual dynamics in Graeco-Roman healing pilgrimage / Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis -- Mucianus and a touch of the miraculous : pilgrimage and tourism in Roman Asia Minor / George Williamson -- Pilgrimage as elite habitus : educated pilgrims in sacred landscape during the Second Sophistic / Marco Galli -- Construction of religious space in Pausanias / William Hutton -- Journey to the end of the world / Andrew Fear -- Pilgrims and ethnographers : in search of the Syrian goddess / J.L. Lightfoot -- Divine and human feet: records of pilgrims honouring Isis / Sarolta A. Takacs -- Rabbi Aqiba comes to Rome : a Jewish pilgrimage in reverse? / David Noy -- "Intermingled until the end of time" : ambiguity as a central condition of early Christian pilgrimage / Wendy Pullan -- Piety and passion : contest and consensus in the audiences for early Christian pilgrimage / Jas Elsner -- Urban shrine and rural saint in fifth-century Alexandria / David Frankfurter. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Greece -- History.
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Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Rome -- History.
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Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Elsner, Jas.
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Rutherford, Ian, 1959-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| Added Title |
Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and early Christian antiquity |
| ISBN |
0199250790 (hbk.) |
| Standard No. |
9780199250790 |
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