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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elsner, Jaś, editor.

Rutherford, Ian, 1959- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pilgrims and pilgrimages--Greece--History.

Pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Pilgrims and pilgrimages--Rome--History.

Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages--History.

Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 513 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and early Christian antiquity

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Summary:

The essays in this volume examine the range of pilgrimage practices in Graeco-Roman antiquity and the early Church. From healing to oracles, from collective civic delegations to individual pilgrims seeking salvation, from localized sacred topographies to empire-wide travel, this book shows the importance of pilgrimage in pagan antiquity and its ancestry to later Christian practice.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print verison:

ISBN:

9780191514388

9780199250790

9780199237913