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Exploring the religious motivations for pilgrimage, this text seeks to examine and reveal the main preoccupations of worshippers in Ancient Greece. Matthew Dillon looks at the main sanctuaries of Delphi, Epidauros and Olympia, as well as the lesser-known oracle of Didyma in Asia Minor and the festivals of the Isthmus of Corinth. He discusses the mode of travel to the sites, means of communication between pilgrims and the religious and ritual practices at the sanctuaries themselves.

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Dillon provides a well organized and carefully researched book that will prove to be an essential tool in Greek religion. <br>-Religious Studies Review, Jan. 1999 <br>... nicely written, and well worth reading. <br>- Edward Kadletz, Ball State University <br> Dillon's work is a useful compendium of sources, logically arranged, and comprehensively uniting material usually treated in seperate fields: history, religion, economics, sanctuaries, travel, athletics, and women...This work makes the Greek's experiences easy to imagine, thanks to its clear style and excellent choices of examples. Dillon asks and answers practical questions: most pilgrims stayed in tents, got food, clothes, and offerings from special markets, and were subject to many rules of both religious and practical importance-where they could park their vehicles, light their fires, and pasture their animals...This is a well-produced book. Its lack of typographical errors sets this volume apart from recently-published error-ridden texts. Its bibliography and notes are gratifyingly rich. Though aware of varying interpretations, Dillon does not engage in polemic on scholarly minutiae. Pilgrims will be profitably consulted by students at all levels.. <br>

`a useful guide to the information available about Greek pilgrimage. - Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, 1999 'An important work which demands the attention of all scholars seriously interested in ancient religion.' - The Classical Review

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