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

  • Petsalis-Diomidis, Alexia.
Date:
2010
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Publication/Creation

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Physical description

xxiv, 315 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 9780199561902
  • 0199561907