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

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.

Author: Jas Elsner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 02/25/2008
Pages: 536
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.73w x 1.16d
ISBN: 9780199237913

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

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