Society, medicine and religion in the sacred tales of Aelius Aristides
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| Formatua: | Baliabide elektronikoa eBook |
| Hizkuntza: | ingelesa |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2012.
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| Saila: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature ;
v. 341. |
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| Sarrera elektronikoa: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Aurkibidea:
- Aelius Aristides and the sacred tales
- Introduction
- The composition of the sacred tales
- Date of composition
- Method of composition
- Motives for composition
- The sacred tales as an autobiography
- The ancient readers of the sacred tales
- A narrative of redemption
- Society, disease and medicine in the sacred tales of Aristides
- Introduction
- 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
- Dreams
- 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
- Towards a medical history of Aelius Aristides
- Falling ill
- Aristides and Asclepius
- Wider contexts
- Reconsidering private religions; religion and religious experience in the sacred tales of Aelius Aristides
- Introduction
- Theology
- The myth of Asclepius
- Divination, oracles and dreams
- Dreams
- Oracles
- Visual culture and social forms of cult-organisation
- Cult, festivals and games
- The power of images.