Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity: Seeing the Gods

Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity: Seeing the Gods
ISBN-10
0191566756
ISBN-13
9780191566752
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
533
Language
English
Published
2007-12-20
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Authors
Ian Rutherford, Jas' Elsner

Description

This book presents a range of case-studies of pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman antiquity, drawing on a wide variety of evidence. It rejects the usual reluctance to accept the category of pilgrimage in pagan polytheism and affirms the significance of sacred mobility not only as an important factor in understanding ancient religion and its topographies but also as vitally ancestral to later Christian practice.

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