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1 online resource (1130 pages) |
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Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Ser. ; v. 184 |
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Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Ser
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| Contents |
Author's Introduction and Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Abbreviations for Museums and Collections; Journal and Series Abbreviations; Abbreviations for Epigraphical, Papyrological, and Numismatic Sources; List of Plans, Figures and Maps; Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 General Introduction; 1.1 Incubation and Other Forms of Divination; 1.2 Incubation Terminology; 1.3 Prior Scholarship on Incubation; 1.4 Therapeutic vs. Divinatory Incubation: An Overlooked Methodological Issue; 1.5 Divinities Associated with Incubation; 1.6 Goals of the Present Work |
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Chapter 2 Early Development of Incubation2.1 Incubation in the Ancient Near East; 2.1.1 Introduction; 2.1.2 Incubation in Early Ancient Near Eastern Literature; 2.1.3 Royal Incubation in Ancient Near Eastern Sources; 2.1.4 Priests, Incubation and Dream-Divination in the Ancient Near East; 2.1.5 Incubation by Non-elites in the Ancient Near East?; 2.1.6 Dreams and Incubation in the Hebrew Bible; 2.1.7 Conclusion; 2.2 Incubation in Egypt; 2.2.1 Introduction; 2.2.2 Royal Dreams and Incubation in Egyptian History and Literature |
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2.2.3 Incubation and Dream-Divination among Non-Royals in Pharaonic and Post-Pharaonic Egypt2.3 Early Evidence for Incubation in Greece; 2.4 Incubation among Other Peoples; Part 2 Greek Cults; Chapter 3 Therapeutic Incubation in the Greek World: Asklepios; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Structures Associated with Incubation and Incubation Rituals at Asklepieia; 3.2.1 Introduction; 3.2.2 Epidauros; 3.2.3 Athens; 3.2.4 Pergamon; 3.2.5 Kos, Corinth, Lebena and other Asklepieia; 3.3 Written and Iconographical Sources for Incubation at Asklepieia; 3.3.1 Introduction; 3.3.2 Epidauros (and its Offshoots) |
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3.3.3 Athens and Peiraeus3.3.4 Lebena; 3.3.5 Pergamon; 3.3.6 Trikka and Kos; 3.3.7 Rome; 3.3.8 Other Asklepieia; 3.4 Asklepios's Modus Operandi; 3.4.1 The Nature of Asklepios's Therapeutic Dreams; 3.4.2 The Representation of Asklepios's Therapeutic Dreams; 3.4.3 Asklepios the Divine Physician; 3.4.4 The Process of Engaging in Incubation; 3.4.4.1 Ritual Purity and the Question of How Water was Employed at Asklepieia; 3.4.4.2 Animal Sacrifices and Other Preliminary Offerings; 3.4.4.3 Bedding Down for the Night; 3.4.4.4 Payments for Successful Cures; 3.5 Conclusion |
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Chapter 4 Therapeutic Incubation in the Greek World: Other Greek Cults4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Amphiaraos; 4.3 The Ploutonion-Charonion Complex at Akaraka (Caria); 4.4 Hemithea at Kastabos (Carian Chersonese); 4.5 Other Cults; Chapter 5 Divinatory Incubation in the Greek World; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Amphiaraos; 5.3 Pasiphae at Thalamai; 5.4 Brizo on Delos; 5.5 Amphilochos and Mopsos (Cilicia); 5.6 Cults of Trojan War Heroes; 5.7 Oracles of the Dead; 5.8 Conclusion; Part 3 Egyptian and Greco-Egyptian Cults; Chapter 6 Sarapis and Isis; 6.1 Introduction |
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6.2 Sarapis and Therapeutic Incubation in Egypt |
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Print version record |
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Incubation (Religion) -- Egypt
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Incubation (Religion) -- Greece
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Incubation (Religion) -- Middle East
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Incubation (Religion)
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Egypt
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Greece
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Middle East
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004330238 |
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9004330232 |
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