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  1. Truly Beyond Wonders
    Aelius Aristides and the Cult of Asklepios
    Author: Petsalis-Diomidis, Alexia
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    A fully illustrated study of healing pilgrimage in the Roman empire during the second century AD. The focus is upon one particular pilgrim, the famous orator Aelius Aristides, whose Sacred Tales is examined in the context of the sanctuary of... more

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    Universität Frankfurt, Elektronische Ressourcen
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    A fully illustrated study of healing pilgrimage in the Roman empire during the second century AD. The focus is upon one particular pilgrim, the famous orator Aelius Aristides, whose Sacred Tales is examined in the context of the sanctuary of Asklepios at Pergamon, where the author spent two years in search of healing.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780191573149
    RVK Categories: NH 1563
    Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture & Representation
    Subjects: Kult
    Other subjects: Asklepios; Aristides, Aelius (117-187): Sacri sermones
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (346 pages)
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  2. Truly beyond wonders
    Aelius Aristides and the cult of Asklepios
    Author: Petsalis-Diomidis, Alexia
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0191573140; 0199561907; 9780191573149; 9780199561902
    Series: Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation
    Subjects: Aristides, Aelius. Sacred teachings; Asklepieion (Leńtas, Greece); Literature; Religion; RELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Spirituality / Paganism & Neo-Paganism; Literatur; Religion; Pilgrims and pilgrimages; Healing; Kult
    Other subjects: Aristides, Aelius: Sacred teachings; Asklepios; Aristides, Aelius (117-187): Sacri sermones
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 315 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references 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