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

by IanRutherford (Editor), Jas'Elsner (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2006

  $299.66

  The essays in this volume examine the range of pilgrimage practices in Graeco-Roman antiquity and the early Church. From healing to oracles, from collective civic delegations to individual pilgrims seeking salvation, from localized sacred topographies to empire-wide travel, this book shows the importance of pilgrimage in pagan antiquity and its ancestry to later Christian practice.