Society, Medicine and Religion in the Sacred Tales of Aelius Aristides ( 1 )

Publication series ：1

Author： Israelowich   Ido  

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2012

E-ISBN: 9789004229440

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004229082

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9789004229082

Subject： I06 Literature, Literature Appreciation;I109.3 Middle Ages (476 - 1640)

Language： ENG

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Description

This monograph offers a study of the inter-relations between medicine, religion, and literature in the Sacred Tales of the Second Century CE Greek scholar Aelius Aristides.

Chapter

Society, Medicine and Religionin the Sacred Tales of Aelius Aristides

pp.：  3 – 3

Copyright

pp.：  4 – 4

Detication

pp.：  5 – 6

Contents

pp.：  7 – 8

Acknowledgements

pp.：  9 – 10

Introduction

pp.：  11 – 20

Chapter One: Aelius Aristides and the Sacred Tales

pp.：  21 – 46

Introduction

pp.：  21 – 23

1. The Composition of the Sacred Tales

pp.：  24 – 33

Date of Composition

pp.：  24 – 24

Method of Composition

pp.：  25 – 28

Motives for Composition

pp.：  29 – 33

2. The Sacred Tales as an Autobiography

pp.：  34 – 35

3. The Ancient Readers of the Sacred Tales

pp.：  36 – 38

4. A Narrative of Redemption

pp.：  39 – 43

Conclusion

pp.：  44 – 46

Chapter Two: Society, Disease and Medicine in the Sacred Tales of Aristides

pp.：  47 – 146

Introduction

pp.：  47 – 49

1. The Graeco-Roman Health-Care System

pp.：  50 – 95

Towards a Definition of a Medical Discourse

pp.：  50 – 53

Medicine in the Graeco-Roman World

pp.：  54 – 65

Roman Medicine and Its Greek Influences

pp.：  66 – 80

Dreams

pp.：  81 – 95

2. The Sick, Medicine and Physicians in the World of the Sacred Tales

pp.：  96 – 114

The Place of the Sick in Society

pp.：  97 – 97

Medical Discourse in the Sacred Tales

pp.：  98 – 112

The Physicians in the Sacred Tales

pp.：  113 – 114

3. Towards a Medical History of Aelius Aristides

pp.：  115 – 141

Falling Ill

pp.：  117 – 122

Aristides and Asclepius

pp.：  123 – 131

Wider Contexts

pp.：  132 – 141

Conclusion

pp.：  142 – 146

Chapter Three: Reconsidering Private Religions; Religion and Religious Experience in the Sacred Tales of Aelius Aristides

pp.：  147 – 190

Introduction

pp.：  147 – 149

1. Theology

pp.：  150 – 154

2. The Myth of Asclepius

pp.：  155 – 163

3. Divination, Oracles and Dreams

pp.：  164 – 174

Dreams

pp.：  169 – 172

Oracles

pp.：  173 – 174

4. Visual Culture and Social Forms of Cult-Organisation

pp.：  175 – 188

Cult, Festivals and Games

pp.：  176 – 181

The Power of Images

pp.：  182 – 188

Conclusion

pp.：  189 – 190

Conclusion

pp.：  191 – 198

Bibliography

pp.：  199 – 212

Index

pp.：  213 – 216

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