The sleeper's dream
Subtitle: Asclepius ritual and early Christian discourse
By: Jeffrey Pettis
Series: Gorgias studies in classical and late antiquity -- 17; Gorgias studies in classical and late antiquity -- 17.
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Piscataway
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781463202569
Subjects: Kult; Cults; Faith Healing; Greek World; History; Christianity; Ancient History; Traum; Superstitions; Cult; History of doctrines; Doctrinal Theology; Dreams; Frühchristentum
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ancient dreams and the Asclepius dream cult; title: Dreams in antiquity; title: Pharmacology and alchemy in antiquity; title: The dream of Aelius Aristides; title: Dreams and early Christian cults; title: Dreams in early Christian sources; title: The passion of Perpetua; title: Gregory of Nazianzus and St Augustine.