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  1. Society, medicine and religion in the "Sacred Tales" of Aelius Aristides
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden ; Boston

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789004229440; 9004229442
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    RVK Categories: FH 66603 ; NH 5075
    Series: Array ; Volume 341
    Subjects: Geschichte; Aristides, Aelius. Sacred teachings; Literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical; Sacred teachings (Aristides, Aelius); Medicine, Greek and Roman; Geschichte; Literatur; Medicine, Greek and Roman; Medicine, Greek and Roman
    Other subjects: Aristides, Aelius: Sacred teachings; Aristides, Aelius: Sacred teachings; Aristides, Aelius (117-187): Sacri sermones
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 206 Seiten)
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    Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One. Aelius Aristides and the Sacred Tales; Introduction; 1. The Composition of the Sacred Tales; Date of Composition; Method of Composition; Motives for Composition; 2. The Sacred Tales as an Autobiography; 3. The Ancient Readers of the Sacred Tales; 4. A Narrative of Redemption; Conclusion; Chapter Two. Society, Disease and Medicine in the Sacred Tales of Aristides; Introduction; 1. The Graeco-Roman Health-Care System; Towards a Definition of a Medical Discourse; Medicine in the Graeco-Roman World; Roman Medicine and Its Greek Influences

    Dreams2. The Sick, Medicine and Physicians in the World of the Sacred Tales; The Place of the Sick in Society; Medical Discourse in the Sacred Tales; The Physicians in the Sacred Tales; 3. Towards a Medical History of Aelius Aristides; Falling Ill; Aristides and Asclepius; Wider Contexts; Conclusion; Chapter Three. Reconsidering Private Religions; Religion and Religious Experience in the Sacred Tales of Aelius Aristides; Introduction; 1. Theology; 2. The Myth of Asclepius; 3. Divination, Oracles and Dreams; Dreams; Oracles; 4. Visual Culture and Social Forms of Cult-Organisation

    Cult, Festivals and GamesThe Power of Images; Conclusion; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

    This monograph offers a study of the inter-relations between medicine, religion, and literature in the Sacred Tales of the Second Century CE Greek scholar Aelius Aristides

  2. Society, Medicine and Religion in the Sacred Tales of Aelius Aristides
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  BRILL, Leiden

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    This monograph offers a study of the inter-relations between medicine, religion, and literature in the Sacred Tales of the Second Century CE Greek scholar Aelius Aristides

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789004229440; 9004229442
    Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements
    Mnemosyne. Supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature ; volume 341
    Subjects: Medicine, Greek and Roman; Medicine, Greek and Roman; Aristides, Aelius. Sacred teachings; Literature; LITERARY CRITICISM ; Ancient & Classical; Medicine, Greek and Roman; History
    Other subjects: Aristides, Aelius; Aristides, Aelius: Sacred teachings
    Scope: Online Ressource (216 pages)
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  3. Society, medicine and religion in the "Sacred Tales" of Aelius Aristides
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden ; Boston

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    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    Universität Potsdam, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789004229440; 9004229442
    Other identifier:
    RVK Categories: FH 66603 ; NH 5075
    Series: Array ; Volume 341
    Subjects: Geschichte; Aristides, Aelius. Sacred teachings; Literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical; Sacred teachings (Aristides, Aelius); Medicine, Greek and Roman; Geschichte; Literatur; Medicine, Greek and Roman; Medicine, Greek and Roman
    Other subjects: Aristides, Aelius: Sacred teachings; Aristides, Aelius: Sacred teachings; Aristides, Aelius (117-187): Sacri sermones
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 206 Seiten)
    Notes:

    Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One. Aelius Aristides and the Sacred Tales; Introduction; 1. The Composition of the Sacred Tales; Date of Composition; Method of Composition; Motives for Composition; 2. The Sacred Tales as an Autobiography; 3. The Ancient Readers of the Sacred Tales; 4. A Narrative of Redemption; Conclusion; Chapter Two. Society, Disease and Medicine in the Sacred Tales of Aristides; Introduction; 1. The Graeco-Roman Health-Care System; Towards a Definition of a Medical Discourse; Medicine in the Graeco-Roman World; Roman Medicine and Its Greek Influences

    Dreams2. The Sick, Medicine and Physicians in the World of the Sacred Tales; The Place of the Sick in Society; Medical Discourse in the Sacred Tales; The Physicians in the Sacred Tales; 3. Towards a Medical History of Aelius Aristides; Falling Ill; Aristides and Asclepius; Wider Contexts; Conclusion; Chapter Three. Reconsidering Private Religions; Religion and Religious Experience in the Sacred Tales of Aelius Aristides; Introduction; 1. Theology; 2. The Myth of Asclepius; 3. Divination, Oracles and Dreams; Dreams; Oracles; 4. Visual Culture and Social Forms of Cult-Organisation

    Cult, Festivals and GamesThe Power of Images; Conclusion; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

    This monograph offers a study of the inter-relations between medicine, religion, and literature in the Sacred Tales of the Second Century CE Greek scholar Aelius Aristides

  4. Truly beyond wonders
    Aelius Aristides and the cult of Asklepios
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    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