Recognizing Miracles in Antiquity and Beyond /

Recognizing Miracles in Antiquity and Beyond / / ed. by Maria Gerolemou.

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In recent years, scholars have extensively explored the function of the miraculous and wondrous in ancient narratives, mostly pondering on how ancient authors view wondrous accounts, i.e. the treatment of the descriptions of wondrous occurrences as true events or their use. More precisely, these nar...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Delattre, Charles,
Demetriou, Chrysanthi,
Gerolemou, Maria,
Hau, Lisa Irene,
Hunzinger, Christine,
Kazantzidis, George,
Kraft, András,
Langerwerf, Lydia,
Lateiner, Donald,
May, Regine,
Mheallaigh, Karen ní,
Neger, Margot,
Nichols, Andrew,
Pajón Leyra, Irene,
Papaioannou, Sophia,
Prêtre, Clarisse,
Tsakmakis, Antonis,
HerausgeberIn:
Gerolemou, Maria,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 53
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XX, 430 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction: In search of the Miraculous
  • I. Miracles
  • Ctesias’ Indica and the Origins of Paradoxography
  • The Epidaurian Iamata: The first “Court of Miracles”?
  • Medicine and the paradox in the Hippocratic Corpus and Beyond
  • ‘One might rightly wonder’ – marvelling in Polybios Histories
  • Omens and Miracles: Interpreting Miraculous Narratives in Roman Historiography
  • Miracles and Pseudo-Miracles in Byzantine Apocalypses
  • II. Workings of Miracles
  • Wonder-ful Memories in Herodotus’ Histories
  • Wonder(s) in Plautus
  • Telling Tales of Wonder: Mirabilia in the Letters of Pliny the Younger
  • Paradoxographic discourse on sources and fountains: deconstructing paradoxes
  • Lucian’s Alexander: technoprophecy, thaumatology and the poetics of wonder
  • III. Believing in Miracles
  • Perceiving Thauma in Archaic Greek Epic
  • Turning Science into Miracle in the Voyage of Alexander the Great
  • ‘Many are the wonders in Greece’: Pausanias the wandering philosopher
  • Miracles in Greek Biography
  • Apuleius on Raising the Dead Crossing the Boundaries of Life and Death while Convincing the Audience
  • Recognizing Miracles in ancient Greek Novels
  • List of Contributors
  • Index Nominum et Rerum

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