Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity: Seeing the Gods. Edited by Jaś Elsner and Ian Rutherford
‘Almost half a million words on a non-subject’—so began a spoof review of Geoffrey de Ste Croix's monumental Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World. If Scott Scullion, one of the contributors to the volume under review, is correct, then pilgrimage in antiquity might be yet another non-subjec...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 58, Issue: 1, Pages: 268-270 |
| Review of: | Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman & early Christian antiquity (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2005) (Pulleyn, Simon)
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| Summary: | ‘Almost half a million words on a non-subject’—so began a spoof review of Geoffrey de Ste Croix's monumental Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World. If Scott Scullion, one of the contributors to the volume under review, is correct, then pilgrimage in antiquity might be yet another non-subject. The problem lies in definition. What is pilgrimage and what are its manifestations in pagan antiquity? It is, after all, a word with a considerable baggage attached to it, mostly of the Christian kind. Can it aptly be adopted to describe the practices of archaic Greeks or imperial Romans? Jane Lightfoot remarks (p. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flm015 |