Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Pilgrimage Polemics: `Neos Asklepios Glykon' in Image and Text
2: Discourses of the Body and Travel: The Cultural Context of Healing Pilgrimage
3: The `Hieroi Logoi' of Aelius Aristides: Aristides before his God in Body and Logos
4: Collecting and Displaying Marvels: Paradoxography and the Asklepieion of Pergamon
5: Choreography and Commemoration: The Asklepieion of Pergamon

About the Author

Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis is Lecturer in Art and Archaeology at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Reviews

Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis works hard to put religion into the Second Sphistic
*Glen Bowersock, Times Literary Supplement*

I would warmly recommend this book to the student of the history of religions, the researcher of the cultural milieu of the second sophistic, and, indeed, the historian of medicine in its socio-political context.
*Georgia Petridou, Social History of Medicine*

ground-breaking, ambitious and truly interdisciplinary ... this book ultimately demonstrates just how integral religion proves to all ancient thinking,
*Michael Squire, Studies in Travel Writing*