Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman & early Christian antiquity : seeing the gods / / edited by Jaś Elsner and Ian Rutherford

• Pubblicazione: Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2005; ©2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 513 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 292.351
• Soggetto topico: Pilgrims and pilgrimages - Greece - History; Pilgrims and pilgrimages - Rome - History; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - History
• Persona (resp. second.): ElsnerJaś; RutherfordIan <1959->
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Altri titoli varianti: Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and early Christian antiquity
• Titolo autorizzato: Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman & early christian antiquity
• ISBN: 9780191514388; 9780199250790; 9780199237913
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792265703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II