Overview

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

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Author:   Jas' Elsner (, Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford) ,  Ian Rutherford (, Professor of Greek, University of Reading)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.90cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.708kg
ISBN:  

9780199237913

ISBN 10:   0199237913
Pages:   536
Publication Date:   20 December 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Barbara Kowalzig: Mapping out Communitas: Performances of Theoria in their Sacred and Political Context 2: Fred Naiden: Hiketai and Theoroi at Epidaurus 3: Michael Arnush: Pilgrimage to the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi: Patterns of Public and Private Consultation 4: Scott Scullion: Pilgrimage and Greek Religion: Sacred and Secular in the Pagan Polis 5: Ian Rutherford: Downstream to the Cat-Goddess: Herodotus on Egyptian Pilgrimage 6: Andrea Wilson-Nightingale: The Philosopher at the Festival: Plato's Transformation of Traditional Theoria 7: Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis: The Body in Space: Visual Dynamics in Graeco-Roman Healing Pilgrimage 8: George Williamson: Mucianus and a Touch of the Miraculous: Pilgrimage and Tourism in Roman Asia Minor 9: Marco Galli: Pilgrimage as Elite Habitus: Educated Pilgrims in Sacred Landscape during the Second Sophistic 10: William Hutton: The Construction of Religious Space in Pausanias 11: Andrew Fear: A Journey to the End of the World 12: J. L. Lightfoot: Pilgrims and Ethnographers: In Search of the Syrian Goddess 13: Sarolta A. Takacs: Divine and Human Feet: Records of Pilgrims Honouring Isis 14: David Noy: Rabbi Aqiba Comes to Rome: A Jewish Pilgrimage in Reverse 15: Wendy Pullan: `Interningled until the end of time': Ambiguity as a Central Condition of Early Christian Pilgrimage 16: Jas' Elsner: Piety and Passion: Contest and Consensus in Audiences for Early Christian Pilgrimage 17: David Frankfurter: Urban Shrine and Rural Saint in Fifth-Century Alexandria

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Jas Elsner is Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Ian Rutherford is Professor of Greek, University of Reading.

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