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] ©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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Table of Contents:
- 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