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

Contents......Page 8
List of figures......Page 11
Abbreviations......Page 14
Contributors......Page 17
Introduction......Page 20
PART I. CLASSICAL AND HELLENISTIC PILGRIMAGE......Page 58
1. Mapping out Communitas: Performances of Theoria in their Sacred and Political Context......Page 60
2. Hiketai and Theoroi at Epidauros......Page 92
3. Pilgrimage to the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi: Patterns of Public and Private Consultation......Page 116
4. ‘Pilgrimage’ and Greek Religion: Sacred and Secular in the Pagan Polis......Page 130
5. Down-Stream to the Cat-Goddess: Herodotus on Egyptian Pilgrimage......Page 150
6. The Philosopher at the Festival: Plato’s Transformation of Traditional Theoria......Page 170
PART II. PILGRIMAGE IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE......Page 200
7. The Body in Space: Visual Dynamics in Graeco-Roman Healing Pilgrimage......Page 202
8. Mucianus and a Touch of the Miraculous: Pilgrimage and Tourism in Roman Asia Minor......Page 238
9. Pilgrimage as Elite Habitus: Educated Pilgrims in Sacred Landscape During the Second Sophistic......Page 272
10. The Construction of Religious Space in Pausanias......Page 310
11. A Journey to the End of the World......Page 338
12. Pilgrims and Ethnographers: In Search of the Syrian Goddess......Page 352
13. Divine and Human Feet: Records of Pilgrims Honouring Isis......Page 372
PART III. JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN PILGRIMAGE......Page 390
14. Rabbi Aqiba Comes to Rome: A Jewish Pilgrimage in Reverse?......Page 392
15. ‘Intermingled Until the End of Time’: Ambiguity as a Central Condition of Early Christian Pilgrimage......Page 406
16. Piety and Passion: Contest and Consensus in the Audiences for Early Christian Pilgrimage......Page 430
17. Urban Shrine and Rural Saint in Fifth-Century Alexandria......Page 454
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