Society, medicine and religion in the "Sacred Tales" of Aelius Aristides:
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1. Verfasser: Israelowich, Ido 1972- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston Brill 2012
Schriftenreihe:Mnemosyne: Supplements Volume 341 : Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature
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Beschreibung:Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One. Aelius Aristides and the Sacred Tales; Introduction; 1. The Composition of the Sacred Tales; Date of Composition; Method of Composition; Motives for Composition; 2. The Sacred Tales as an Autobiography; 3. The Ancient Readers of the Sacred Tales; 4. A Narrative of Redemption; Conclusion; Chapter Two. Society, Disease and Medicine in the Sacred Tales of Aristides; Introduction; 1. The Graeco-Roman Health-Care System; Towards a Definition of a Medical Discourse; Medicine in the Graeco-Roman World; Roman Medicine and Its Greek Influences
Dreams2. The Sick, Medicine and Physicians in the World of the Sacred Tales; The Place of the Sick in Society; Medical Discourse in the Sacred Tales; The Physicians in the Sacred Tales; 3. Towards a Medical History of Aelius Aristides; Falling Ill; Aristides and Asclepius; Wider Contexts; Conclusion; Chapter Three. Reconsidering Private Religions; Religion and Religious Experience in the Sacred Tales of Aelius Aristides; Introduction; 1. Theology; 2. The Myth of Asclepius; 3. Divination, Oracles and Dreams; Dreams; Oracles; 4. Visual Culture and Social Forms of Cult-Organisation
Cult, Festivals and GamesThe Power of Images; Conclusion; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
This monograph offers a study of the inter-relations between medicine, religion, and literature in the Sacred Tales of the Second Century CE Greek scholar Aelius Aristides
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