The Sleeper's Dream : : Asclepius Ritual and Early Christian Discourse / / Jeffrey B. Pettis.
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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2015 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: Ancient Dreams and the Asclepius Dream Cult -- Chapter 1: Dreams in Antiquity -- Chapter 2: Pharmacology and Alchemy in Antiquity -- Chapter 3: The Dream of Aelius Aristides -- Part II: Dreams and Early Christian Cults -- Chapter 4: Dreams in Early Christian Sources -- Chapter 5: The Passion of Perpetua -- Chapter 6: Gregory of Nazianzus and St. Augustine -- Conclusion: Dreams and Healing in Early Christian and Asclepius Cults -- Appendix A: PGM Texts in Relation to Dreams and Healing -- Appendix B: Texts of Aristides's and the Asclepius Cult -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781463235680 9783110663037 |
DOI: | 10.31826/9781463235680 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Jeffrey B. Pettis. |