Leisure, pleasure and healing: spa culture and medicine in ancient eastern Mediterranean
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1. Verfasser: Dvorjetski, Esti (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden Brill 2007
Schriftenreihe:Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism v. 116
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
List of Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Geological, Hydrological and Medicinal Aspects of Hot springs in the Eastern Mediterranean -- Past and Present; Chapter Three: Medicinal Hot Springs and Healing Spas in the Graeco-Roman World; Chapter Four: Historical-Archaeological Analysis and Healing Cults of the Therapeutic Sites in the Eastern Mediterranean Basin; Chapter Five: The Healing Properties of the Thermo-mineral Baths in the Eastern Mediterranean in Ancient Times
Deals with leisure, pleasure and healing in the thermo-mineral sites in the Levant since the biblical era throughout the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, and early Moslem periods. This work looks at the question of whether the spas served as sacred cult places or popular sites of healing
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xxxiii, 524 pages)
ISBN:900415681X
9047420519
9789004156814
9789047420514

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