Truly beyond wonders : Aelius Aristides and the cult of Asklepios / by Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis.

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Petsalis-Diomidis, Alexia

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Oxford studies in ancient culture and representationPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 315 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780191573149
0191573140
1283222744
9781283222747

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Truly beyond wonders.DDC classification:

292.351 22

LOC classification:

PA3874.A7 Z5 2010eb

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Contents:

Pilgrimage polemics : 'neos Asklepios Glykon' in image and text -- Discourses of the body and travel : the cultural context of healing pilgrimage -- The Hieroi Logoi of Aelius Aristides : Aristides before his God in body and logos -- Collecting and displaying marvels : paradoxography and the Asklepieion of Pergamon -- Choreography and commemoration : the Asklepieion of Pergamon.

Summary: In Truly Beyond Wonders Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis investigates texts and material evidence associated with healing pilgrimage in the Roman empire during the second century AD. Her focus is upon one particular pilgrim, the famous orator Aelius Aristides, whose Sacred Tales, his fascinating account of dream visions, gruelling physical treatments, and sacred journeys, has been largely misunderstood and marginalized. Petsalis-Diomidis rehabilitates this text by placingit within the material context of the sanctuary of Asklepios at Pergamon, where the author spent two years in search of healing. The.

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In Truly Beyond Wonders Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis investigates texts and material evidence associated with healing pilgrimage in the Roman empire during the second century AD. Her focus is upon one particular pilgrim, the famous orator Aelius Aristides, whose Sacred Tales, his fascinating account of dream visions, gruelling physical treatments, and sacred journeys, has been largely misunderstood and marginalized. Petsalis-Diomidis rehabilitates this text by placingit within the material context of the sanctuary of Asklepios at Pergamon, where the author spent two years in search of healing. The.

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