Recognizing miracles in antiquity and beyond / edited by Maria Gerolemou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Gerolemou, Maria, editor.

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 53.

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 1868-4785 ; volume 53

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Miracles in literature--Congresses.

Miracles in literature.

Supernatural in literature--Congresses.

Supernatural in literature.

Classical literature--Themes, motives--Congresses.

Classical literature.

Classical literature--Themes, motives.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 430 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction: In search of the Miraculous / Gerolemou, Maria

I. Miracles

Ctesias' Indica and the Origins of Paradoxography / Nichols, Andrew

The Epidaurian Iamata: The first "Court of Miracles"? / Prêtre, Clarisse

Medicine and the paradox in the Hippocratic Corpus and Beyond / Kazantzidis, George

'One might rightly wonder' - marvelling in Polybios Histories / Hau, Lisa Irene

Omens and Miracles: Interpreting Miraculous Narratives in Roman Historiography / Papaioannou, Sophia

Miracles and Pseudo-Miracles in Byzantine Apocalypses / Kraft, András

II. Workings of Miracles

Wonder-ful Memories in Herodotus' Histories / Gerolemou, Maria

Wonder(s) in Plautus / Demetriou, Chrysanthi

Telling Tales of Wonder: Mirabilia in the Letters of Pliny the Younger / Neger, Margot

Paradoxographic discourse on sources and fountains: deconstructing paradoxes / Delattre, Charles

Lucian's Alexander: technoprophecy, thaumatology and the poetics of wonder / Mheallaigh, Karen ní

III. Believing in Miracles

Perceiving Thauma in Archaic Greek Epic / Hunzinger, Christine

Turning Science into Miracle in the Voyage of Alexander the Great / Pajón Leyra, Irene

'Many are the wonders in Greece': Pausanias the wandering philosopher / Langerwerf, Lydia

Miracles in Greek Biography / Tsakmakis, Antonis

Apuleius on Raising the Dead Crossing the Boundaries of Life and Death while Convincing the Audience / May, Regine

Recognizing Miracles in ancient Greek Novels / Lateiner, Donald

List of Contributors

Index Nominum et Rerum

Notes:

"This volume is largely the product of a conference held at the University of Cyprus in October 2014"--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

9783110563559

311056355X

Publisher Number:

99977312959

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Restricted for use by site license.