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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford studies in ancient culture and representationPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [(c)2010.]Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 315 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191573149
  • 0191573140
  • 1283222744
  • 9781283222747
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PA3874.7
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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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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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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