Research Catalog

Title

Recognizing miracles in antiquity and beyond / edited by Maria Gerolemou.

Publication

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2018.

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Details

Additional Authors

Gerolemou, Maria

Description

xx, 430 pages; 24 cm

Series Statement

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 1868-4785 ; volume 53

Uniform Title

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 53.

Subjects

• Supernatural in literature > Congresses
• Miracles in literature > Congresses
• Classical literature > Themes, motives > Congresses

Note

• "This volume is largely the product of a conference held at the University of Cyprus in October 2014"--Introduction.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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

Call Number

JFE 18-6803

ISBN

• 3110530465
• 9783110530469

OCLC

992575115

Title

Recognizing miracles in antiquity and beyond / edited by Maria Gerolemou.

Publisher

Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2018.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 1868-4785 ; volume 53

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 53.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Gerolemou, Maria, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-6803