TY - BOOK ID - 2956180 TI - Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman & Early Christian Antiquity : seeing the gods AU - Elsner, Jaś AU - Rutherford, Ian PY - 2005 SN - 0199250790 9780199250790 0199237913 9780199237913 0191716715 9781429470612 1429470615 0191514381 9780191514388 9786610904792 6610904790 1280904798 9780191716713 PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Pilgrims and pilgrimages KW - Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages KW - Pèlerins et pèlerinages KW - Pèlerins et pèlerinages chrétiens KW - History. KW - Histoire KW - Pèlerins et pèlerinages KW - Pèlerins et pèlerinages chrétiens KW - Processions, Religious KW - Travelers KW - Voyages and travels KW - Shrines KW - History KW - Greece KW - Rome KW - Pilgrimages and pilgrims KW - Spiritual tourism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2956180 AB - The essays in this volume examine the range of pilgrimage practices in Graeco-Roman antiquity and the early Church. From healing to oracles, from collective civic delegations to individual pilgrims seeking salvation, from localized sacred topographies to empire-wide travel, this book shows the importance of pilgrimage in pagan antiquity and its ancestry to later Christian practice. - ;This book presents a range of case-studies of pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman antiquity, drawing on a wide variety of evidence. It rejects the usual reluctance to accept the category of pilgrimage in pagan polytheism ER -