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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Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Table of Contents --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Preface --   |t Introduction --   |t Part 1: Ancient Dreams and the Asclepius Dream Cult --   |t Chapter 1: Dreams in Antiquity --   |t Chapter 2: Pharmacology and Alchemy in Antiquity --   |t Chapter 3: The Dream of Aelius Aristides --   |t Part II: Dreams and Early Christian Cults --   |t Chapter 4: Dreams in Early Christian Sources --   |t Chapter 5: The Passion of Perpetua --   |t Chapter 6: Gregory of Nazianzus and St. Augustine --   |t Conclusion: Dreams and Healing in Early Christian and Asclepius Cults --   |t Appendix A: PGM Texts in Relation to Dreams and Healing --   |t Appendix B: Texts of Aristides's and the Asclepius Cult --   |t Bibliography --   |t Index 
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