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

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ISBN: 9780199237913 | 0199237913
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Copyright: 2/25/2008

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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 factorin understanding ancient religion and its topographies but also as vitally ancestral to later Christian practice.

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List of figures	p. x
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Contributors	p. xvi
Introduction	p. 1
Classical and Hellenistic Pilgrimage
Mapping out Communitas: Performances of Theoria in their Sacred and Political Context	p. 41
Hiketai and Theoroi at Epidauros	p. 73
Pilgrimage to the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi: Patterns of Public and Private Consultation	p. 97
'Pilgrimage' and Greek Religion: Sacred and Secular in the Pagan Polis	p. 111
Down-Stream to the Cat-Goddess: Herodotus on Egyptian Pilgrimage	p. 131
The Philosopher at the Festival: Plato's Transformation of Traditional Theoria	p. 151
Pilgrimage in the Roman Empire
The Body in Space: Visual Dynamics in Graeco-Roman Healing Pilgrimage	p. 183
Mucianus and a Touch of the Miraculous: Pilgrimage and Tourism in Roman Asia Minor	p. 219
Pilgrimage as Elite Habitus: Educated Pilgrims in Sacred Landscape During the Second Sophistic	p. 253
The Construction of Religious Space in Pausanias	p. 291
A Journey to the End of the World	p. 319
Pilgrims and Ethnographers: In Search of the Syrian Goddess	p. 333
Divine and Human Feet: Records of Pilgrims Honouring Isis	p. 353
Jewish and Christian Pilgrimage
Rabbi Aqiba Comes to Rome: A Jewish Pilgrimage in Reverse?	p. 373
'Intermingled Until the End of Time': Ambiguity as a Central Condition of Early Christian Pilgrimage	p. 387
Piety and Passion: Contest and Consensus in the Audiences for Early Christian Pilgrimage	p. 411
Urban Shrine and Rural Saint in Fifth-Century Alexandria	p. 435
Bibliography	p. 451
Index	p. 501
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Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity Seeing the Gods

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