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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465731703321

Autore

Elsner Jaś

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2010

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 513 p.) : ill

Disciplina

292.351

Soggetti

European Religions - pre-Christian

Religion

Philosophy & Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

From healing to oracles, from collective civic delegations to individual pilgrims seeking salvation, from localized sacred topographies to empire-wide travel, this title shows the importance of pilgrimage in pagan antiquity and its ancestry to later Christian practice.