: Jeffrey B. Pettis
: The Sleeper's Dream Asclepius Ritual and Early Christian Discourse
: Gorgias Press
: 9781463235680
: Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity
: 1
: CHF 112.70
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: Altertum
: English
: 248
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This analysis probes into the nature and use of bodily healing and dreams in antiquity, examining literary and archaeological evidence in order to gain a sense of how the Greco-Roman world understood each through the Asclepius cult, and to understand references to bodily healings and dreams by early Christian cults and groups.