Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity

Jas' Elsner is Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford.Ian Rutherford is Professor of Greek, University of Reading.

• Introduction ; 1. Mapping out Communitas: Performances of Theoria in their Sacred and Political Context ; 2. Hiketai and Theoroi at Epidaurus ; 3. Pilgrimage to the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi: Patterns of Public and Private Consultation ; 4. Pilgrimage and Greek Religion: Sacred and Secular in the Pagan Polis ; 5. Downstream to the Cat-Goddess: Herodotus on Egyptian Pilgrimage ; 6. The Philosopher at the Festival: Plato's Transformation of Traditional Theoria ; 7. The Body in Space: Visual Dynamics in Graeco-Roman Healing Pilgrimage ; 8. Mucianus and a Touch of the Miraculous: Pilgrimage and Tourism in Roman Asia Minor ; 9. Pilgrimage as Elite Habitus: Educated Pilgrims in Sacred Landscape during the Second Sophistic ; 10. The Construction of Religious Space in Pausanias ; 11. A Journey to the End of the World ; 12. Pilgrims and Ethnographers: In Search of the Syrian Goddess ; 13. Divine and Human Feet: Records of Pilgrims Honouring Isis ; 14. Rabbi Aqiba Comes to Rome: A Jewish Pilgrimage in Reverse ; 15. 'Interningled until the end of time': Ambiguity as a Central Condition of Early Christian Pilgrimage ; 16. Piety and Passion: Contest and Consensus in Audiences for Early Christian Pilgrimage ; 17. Urban Shrine and Rural Saint in Fifth-Century Alexandria

...a vital contribution to the study of ancient pilgrimage and to studies in ancient religion...one of the essential works in the field.