00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-99796217611352326 Buklod 20140725161637.0 m o j ta 120213s2012 xx rb |001 0|eng c 9789004229082 (hardback : alkaline paper) (iLib)UPD-00226705367 DLC DMLS rda eng DMLUC PA 3874 A7 I87 2012 Israelowich, Ido 1972- author. Society, medicine and religion in the sacred tales of Aelius Aristides by Ido Israelowich. Leiden Brill 2012. viii, 206 pages 25 cm. text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Mnemosyne supplements volume 341 Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-201) and index. 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. CSSP-8015 donated by Brill Publsihers through SPi Global Foundation, Inc. Aristides, Aelius. Sacred teachings. Medicine, Greek and Roman History. Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum v. 341. FO UPD DMLS PA 3874 A7 I87 2012 Book