TY - BOOK ID - 16191010 TI - Marcus Aurelius' rain miracle and the Marcomannic wars PY - 2009 VL - 308 SN - 9789004166394 9004166394 9786612398353 1282398350 9047443268 9789047443261 9781282398351 6612398353 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill ; DB - UniCat KW - Marcomannic War, 167-180 KW - Miracles. KW - Religious aspects. KW - Marcus Aurelius, KW - Rome KW - Religion. KW - History KW - Religion KW - Miracles KW - Relgious aspects KW - Guerre contre les Marcomans, 167-180 KW - Religious aspects KW - Aspect religieux KW - Histoire KW - God KW - Marvelous, The KW - Miracle workers KW - Spiritual healing KW - Supernatural KW - Aurelius Antoninus, Marcus, KW - Aurelius, Marcus, KW - Mark Aurel, KW - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, KW - Mark Avreliĭ, KW - Marek Aureliusz, KW - Marc Aurel, KW - Marcus Antoninus, KW - Antoninus, Marcus, KW - Markos Antōninos, KW - Marco Aurelio, KW - Marḳus Aʼurelyus, KW - Marḳus Orelyus, KW - Marks Aurēlijs, KW - מארקוס אורליוס KW - מרקוס אורליוס KW - מרקוס אורליוס, KW - Μάρκος Ἀντωνῖνος, KW - Ἀντωνῖνος, Μάρκος, KW - Religion - Rome - History - Marcus Aurelius, 161-180 KW - Marcomannic War, 167-180 - Relgious aspects KW - Marcus Aurelius, - Emperor of Rome, - 121-180 KW - Rome - History - Marcus Aurelius, 161-180 KW - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus KW - Marcus Aurelius UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:16191010 AB - The longest war of the Roman imperial period is the war Marcus Aurelius waged with the northern German and Sarmatian tribes. The best-known events of these wars were the lightning and rain miracles. Divine intervention saved the Roman troops who were surrounded by the Germans and suffering from a water shortage, by means of a lightning and rain miracle. Thunderbolts struck the enemy while the rain soothed the Romans’ suffering. Several pagan and Christian versions of the miracle existed already in Antiquity. Péter Kovács examines these events and their sources in detail. The most important source is the Column of Marcus Aurelius in Rome. The scenes of the column depict the miracles as well and therefore it was studied separately. The author also sketches the history of the Marcomannic wars. He publishes all the sources of the miracles and examines the development of the legend from Antiquity to the 14th century. ER -