E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten
Pettis The Sleeper's Dream
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4632-3568-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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Asclepius Ritual and Early Christian Discourse
E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten
Reihe: Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity
ISBN: 978-1-4632-3568-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
This analysis probes into the nature and use of bodily healing and dreams in antiquity, examining literary and archaeological evidence in order to gain a sense of how the Greco-Roman world understood each through the Asclepius cult, and to understand references to bodily healings and dreams by early Christian cults and groups.
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- Table of Contents (page 5)
- Acknowledgments (page 9)
- Preface (page 11)
- Introduction (page 13)
- Part I: Ancient Dreams and the Asclepius Dream Cult (page 23)
- Chapter 1: Dreams in Antiquity (page 25)
- Chapter 2: Pharmacology and Alchemy in Antiquity (page 59)
- Chapter 3: The Dream of Aelius Aristides (page 89)
- Part II: Dreams and Early Christian Cults (page 123)
- Chapter 4: Dreams in Early Christian Sources (page 125)
- Chapter 5: The Passion of Perpetua (page 167)
- Chapter 6: Gregory of Nazianzus and St Augustine (page 197)
- Conclusion (page 211)
- Appendix A: PGM Texts in Relation to Dreams and Healing (page 227)
- Appendix B: Texts of Aristides's and the Asclepius Cult (page 233)
- Bibliography (page 237)
- Index (page 247)