TY - BOOK
T1 - Society, medicine and religion in the sacred tales of Aelius Aristides
AU - Israelowich, Ido
N1 - Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Oxford, 2008.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Aelius Aristides' Sacred Tales offer a unique opportunity to examine how an educated man of the Second Century CE came to terms with illness. The experiences portrayed in the Tales disclose an understanding of illness in both religious and medical terms. Aristides was a devout worshipper of Asclepius while at the same time being a patient of some of the most distinguished physicians of his day. This monograph offers a textual analysis of the Sacred Tales in the context of the so-called Second Sophistic; medicine and the medical use of dream interpretation; and religion, with particular emphasis on the cult of Asclepius and the visual means used to convey religious content.
AB - Aelius Aristides' Sacred Tales offer a unique opportunity to examine how an educated man of the Second Century CE came to terms with illness. The experiences portrayed in the Tales disclose an understanding of illness in both religious and medical terms. Aristides was a devout worshipper of Asclepius while at the same time being a patient of some of the most distinguished physicians of his day. This monograph offers a textual analysis of the Sacred Tales in the context of the so-called Second Sophistic; medicine and the medical use of dream interpretation; and religion, with particular emphasis on the cult of Asclepius and the visual means used to convey religious content.
KW - Aristides, Aelius. Sacred teachings
KW - Medicine, Greek and Roman
KW - רפואה יוונית ורומית
KW - الطبّ، اليونان والرومان
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SN - 9789004229082
T3 - Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum 341
BT - Society, medicine and religion in the sacred tales of Aelius Aristides
PB - Brill
CY - Leiden
ER -