The Sleeper's Dream : : Asclepius Ritual and Early Christian Discourse / / Jeffrey B. Pettis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2015
• VerfasserIn: Pettis, Jeffrey B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• 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
• 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.

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.