| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 513 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Mapping out communitas : performances of theōria in their sacred and political context / Barbara Kowalzig -- Hiketai and theōroi 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 theōria / 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. Takács -- 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 / Jaś Elsner -- Urban shrine and rural saint in fifth-century Alexandria / David Frankfurter |
| Summary |
This book is an innovative collection of seventeen essays by leading scholars of ancient religion on aspects of pilgrimage in Greek and Roman and Early Christian Antiquity. The period covered is roughly from 500BC till 400AD, and the types of pilgrimage studied is very broad, ranging from state delegations that are more or less politically motivated to the journeys of individuals interested in intellectually or spiritual enlightenment. Essays are arranged in three sections: Part 1 (‘Classical and Hellenistic Pilgrimage’) comprises six essays, dealing with aspects of Greek state-pilgrimage (‘theōria’), as well as the representation of pilgrimage in literature and philosophy; Part II (‘Pilgrimage in the Roman Empire’) contains seven essays dealing with topics such as healing pilgrimage, cultural pilgrimage by elites and pilgrimage in oriental cults; finally Part III (‘Jewish and Christian Pilgrimage’) comprises four essays dealing with inter alia, Jewish and Christian pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and Christian pilgrimage in Egypt in Late Antiquity. The essays are preceded by an Introduction in which the editors discuss the appropriateness of the term ‘pilgrimage’ to this period, arguing against scholars who have suggested that the term should not be used when dealing with polytheism; they also set out a typology of twenty forms of pilgrimage attested in this period |
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Pilgrimage |
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Graeco-Roman antiquity |
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Early Christian antiquity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-500) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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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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Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Italy -- Rome -- History
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Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Greece -- History
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RELIGION -- Reference.
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Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
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Pilgrims and pilgrimages
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Italy -- Rome
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Greece
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Elsner, Jaś.
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Rutherford, Ian, 1959-
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| ISBN |
0199250790 |
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9780199250790 |
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9781429470612 |
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1429470615 |
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9780191716713 |
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0191716715 |
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9780191514388 |
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0191514381 |
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9786610904792 |
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6610904790 |
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9780199237913 |
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0199237913 |
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