Recognizing miracles in antiquity and beyond
Record details
- ISBN: 9783110562613
- ISBN: 3110562618
- ISBN: 311056355X
- ISBN: 9783110563559
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xx, 430 pages)
remote - Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: In search of the Miraculous / Gerolemou, Maria -- I. Miracles -- Ctesias' Indica and the Origins of Paradoxography / Nichols, Andrew -- The Epidaurian Iamata: The first "Court of Miracles"? / Prêtre, Clarisse -- Medicine and the paradox in the Hippocratic Corpus and Beyond / Kazantzidis, George -- 'One might rightly wonder' -- marvelling in Polybios Histories / Hau, Lisa Irene -- Omens and Miracles: Interpreting Miraculous Narratives in Roman Historiography / Papaioannou, Sophia -- Miracles and Pseudo-Miracles in Byzantine Apocalypses / Kraft, András -- II. Workings of Miracles -- Wonder-ful Memories in Herodotus' Histories / Gerolemou, Maria -- Wonder(s) in Plautus / Demetriou, Chrysanthi -- Telling Tales of Wonder: Mirabilia in the Letters of Pliny the Younger / Neger, Margot -- Paradoxographic discourse on sources and fountains: deconstructing paradoxes / Delattre, Charles -- Lucian's Alexander: technoprophecy, thaumatology and the poetics of wonder / Mheallaigh, Karen ní -- III. Believing in Miracles -- Perceiving Thauma in Archaic Greek Epic / Hunzinger, Christine -- Turning Science into Miracle in the Voyage of Alexander the Great / Pajón Leyra, Irene -- 'Many are the wonders in Greece': Pausanias the wandering philosopher / Langerwerf, Lydia -- Miracles in Greek Biography / Tsakmakis, Antonis -- Apuleius on Raising the Dead Crossing the Boundaries of Life and Death while Convincing the Audience / May, Regine -- Recognizing Miracles in ancient Greek Novels / Lateiner, Donald -- List of Contributors -- Index Nominum et Rerum. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
Language Note: | In English. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Subject: | Classical literature -- Themes, motives -- Congresses Supernatural in literature -- Congresses Miracles in literature -- Congresses |
Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. Conference papers and proceedings. |