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

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag leicht berieben, Knicke im Schutzumschlag, minimale Randl�ren, sonst sehr guter Zustand / dust jacket slightly rubbed, creases in dust jacket, minimal edge wear, otherwise very good condition. - The history of Graeco-Roman religion has long been hesitant about accepting the category and phenomena of pilgrimage, largely perhaps because of its resistance to topics that have been strongly associated with Christianity. The essays in this volume have been gathered to demonstrate the richness, diversity, and importance of the practice of pilgrimage in antiquity, and hence to reestablish the significance of sacred travel in the ancient world. The evidence for pilgrimage is copious and varied�spanning inscriptions, literary texts, first- person travel accounts, archaeology, art, and architecture. The activities which may be classified under the broad heading of sacred mobility range from the collective travel of civic delegates to the personal journeys of devotees to particular shrines, from the consultation of oracles to initiation in specific local cults or mysteries, from a sacred antiquarianism to the healing of disease. The papers gathered here span the Greek and Roman worlds, as well as early Christianity, whose practices of pilgrimage owe significant debts to pre-Christian patterns of sacred travel that Christendom none the less transformed. / Contents List of figures Abbreviations Contributors Introduction Jas Elsner and Ian Rutherford PART I. CLASSICAL AND HELLENISTIC PILGRIMAGE 1. Mapping out Communitas-. Performances of Theoria in their Sacred and Political Context Barbara Kowalzig 2. Hiketai and Theoroi at Epidauros Fred Naiden 3. Pilgrimage to the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi: Patterns of Public and Private Consultation Michael Arnush 4. �Pilgrimage� and Greek Religion: Sacred and Secular in the Pagan Polis Scott Scullion 5. Down-Stream to the Cat-Goddess: Herodotus on Egyptian Pilgrimage Ian Rutherford 6. The Philosopher at the Festival: Plato�s Transformation of Traditional The� Andrea Wilson Nightingale PART II. PILGRIMAGE IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE 7. The Body in Space: Visual Dynamics in Graeco-Roman Healing Pilgrimage Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis 8. Mucianus and a Touch of the Miraculous: Pilgrimage and Tourism in Roman Asia Minor George Williamson 9. Pilgrimage as Elite Habitus: Educated Pilgrims in Sacred Landscape During the Second Sophistic Marco Galli 10. The Construction of Religious Space in Pausanias William Hutton 11. A Journey to the End of the World Andrew Fear 12. Pilgrims and Ethnographers: In Search of the Syrian Goddess J. L. Lightfoot 13. Divine and Human Feet: Records of Pilgrims Honouring Isis Sarolta A. Tak� PART III. JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN PILGRIMAGE 14. Rabbi Aqiba Comes to Rome: A Jewish Pilgrimage in Reverse? David Noy 15. �Intermingled Until the End of Time�: Ambiguity as a Central Condition of Early Christian Pilgrimage Wendy Pullan 16. Piety and Passion: Contest and Consensus in the Audiences for Early Christian Pilgrimage Jas Elsner 17. Urban Shrine and Rural Saint in Fifth-Century Alexandria David Frankfurter Bibliography Index. ISBN 9780199250790