Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World
Contents -- Author's Introduction and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Abbreviations for Museums and Collections -- Journal and Series Abbreviations -- Abbreviations for Epigraphical, Papyrological, and Numismatic Sources -- List of Plans, Figures and Maps -- Part 1 Introduction -- Chapter 1...
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2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Series/Journal: | Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Ser
v.184 Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Volume 184 |
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Incubation (Religion) ; Middle East
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| Summary: | Contents -- Author's Introduction and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Abbreviations for Museums and Collections -- Journal and Series Abbreviations -- Abbreviations for Epigraphical, Papyrological, and Numismatic Sources -- List of Plans, Figures and Maps -- Part 1 Introduction -- Chapter 1 General Introduction -- 1.1 Incubation and Other Forms of Divination -- 1.2 Incubation Terminology -- 1.3 Prior Scholarship on Incubation -- 1.4 Therapeutic vs. Divinatory Incubation: An Overlooked Methodological Issue -- 1.5 Divinities Associated with Incubation -- 1.6 Goals of the Present Work -- Chapter 2 Early Development of Incubation -- 2.1 Incubation in the Ancient Near East -- 2.1.1 Introduction -- 2.1.2 Incubation in Early Ancient Near Eastern Literature -- 2.1.3 Royal Incubation in Ancient Near Eastern Sources -- 2.1.4 Priests, Incubation and Dream-Divination in the Ancient Near East -- 2.1.5 Incubation by Non-elites in the Ancient Near East? -- 2.1.6 Dreams and Incubation in the Hebrew Bible -- 2.1.7 Conclusion -- 2.2 Incubation in Egypt -- 2.2.1 Introduction -- 2.2.2 Royal Dreams and Incubation in Egyptian History and Literature -- 2.2.3 Incubation and Dream-Divination among Non-Royals in Pharaonic and Post-Pharaonic Egypt -- 2.3 Early Evidence for Incubation in Greece -- 2.4 Incubation among Other Peoples -- Part 2 Greek Cults -- Chapter 3 Therapeutic Incubation in the Greek World: Asklepios -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Structures Associated with Incubation and Incubation Rituals at Asklepieia -- 3.2.1 Introduction -- 3.2.2 Epidauros -- 3.2.3 Athens -- 3.2.4 Pergamon -- 3.2.5 Kos, Corinth, Lebena and other Asklepieia -- 3.3 Written and Iconographical Sources for Incubation at Asklepieia -- 3.3.1 Introduction -- 3.3.2 Epidauros (and its Offshoots) -- 3.3.3 Athens and Peiraeus -- 3.3.4 Lebena -- 3.3.5 Pergamon -- 3.3.6 Trikka and Kos -- 3.3.7 Rome 3.3.8 Other Asklepieia -- 3.4 Asklepios's Modus Operandi -- 3.4.1 The Nature of Asklepios's Therapeutic Dreams -- 3.4.2 The Representation of Asklepios's Therapeutic Dreams -- 3.4.3 Asklepios the Divine Physician -- 3.4.4 The Process of Engaging in Incubation -- 3.4.4.1 Ritual Purity and the Question of How Water was Employed at Asklepieia -- 3.4.4.2 Animal Sacrifices and Other Preliminary Offerings -- 3.4.4.3 Bedding Down for the Night -- 3.4.4.4 Payments for Successful Cures -- 3.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Therapeutic Incubation in the Greek World: Other Greek Cults -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Amphiaraos -- 4.3 The Ploutonion-Charonion Complex at Akaraka (Caria) -- 4.4 Hemithea at Kastabos (Carian Chersonese) -- 4.5 Other Cults -- Chapter 5 Divinatory Incubation in the Greek World -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Amphiaraos -- 5.3 Pasiphae at Thalamai -- 5.4 Brizo on Delos -- 5.5 Amphilochos and Mopsos (Cilicia) -- 5.6 Cults of Trojan War Heroes -- 5.7 Oracles of the Dead -- 5.8 Conclusion -- Part 3 Egyptian and Greco-Egyptian Cults -- Chapter 6 Sarapis and Isis -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Sarapis and Therapeutic Incubation in Egypt -- 6.3 Sarapis and Therapeutic Incubation outside of Egypt -- 6.4 Isis and Therapeutic Incubation in Egypt and the Rest of the "Inhabited World" -- 6.5 Divinatory Incubation in the Cults of Sarapis and Isis -- 6.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Saqqâra and the "House of Osiris-Apis" -- 7.1 Introduction to Saqqâra's Temple Complexes and the Archives of the "Recluse" Ptolemaios and Ḥor of Sebennytos -- 7.2 Osorapis and Therapeutic Incubation -- 7.3 Osorapis and Divinatory Incubation -- 7.4 Imhotep -- 7.5 Thoth and Divinatory Incubation -- 7.6 Thoth and Therapeutic Incubation -- 7.7 Isis -- 7.8 Conclusion -- Chapter 8 Amenhotep and Imhotep at Deir el-Bahari and Thebes -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Healing and Therapeutic Incubation 8.3 Divinatory Incubation -- 8.4 The Locus for Incubation at Deir el-Bahari -- 8.5 Sources for Amenhotep and Imhotep from Elsewhere in Theban Territory -- Chapter 9 Other Egyptian Cults -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Osiris-Sarapis (?) and Bes at the Abydos Memnonion -- 9.3 Amonrasonter at Karnak? -- 9.4 Thoth at Hermoupolis Magna -- 9.5 Psais/Shaï or Hathor/Aphrodite (Possibly in the Fayoum)? -- 9.6 Osormnevis at Heliopolis? -- 9.7 Miysis at Leontopolis? -- 9.8 Antinous -- Part 4 Thematic Studies and Catalog -- Appendix I Sites Insufficiently, Dubiously or Wrongly Linked to Incubation -- I.1 Greece and the Greek Islands -- I.1.1 Dodona, Sanctuary of Zeus -- I.1.2 Troizen, Sanctuary of Pan -- I.1.3 Haliartos (or Orchomenos) -- I.1.4 Ephyra Nekyomanteion -- I.1.5 Lato (Crete), Asklepieion? -- I.2 Macedonia -- I.2.1 Philippi, Sanctuary of Isis -- I.3 Asia Minor -- I.3.1 Troad, Unknown Sanctuary of Sarpedon & Seleukia (Cilicia), Sanctuary of Apollo Sarpedonios -- I.3.2 Colophon (Ionia), Sanctuary of Apollo Klarios -- I.3.3 Hierapolis (Phrygia), Sanctuary of Apollo and Ploutonion -- I.4 Commagene -- I.4.1 Doliche, Sanctuary of Zeus Dolichenos -- I.5 Media -- I.5.1 Mt. Sabalān, Sanctuary of "Herakles" -- I.6 Babylonia -- I.6.1 Babylon, Sanctuary of Ištar/Aphrodite -- I.7 Judaea -- I.7.1 Dora, Unidentified Sanctuary and Byzantine Church -- I.8 Egypt -- I.8.1 Dendara, Sanctuary of Hathor -- I.8.2 Heliopolis, Temple of Ra/Helios -- I.8.3 Saqqâra, "Bes chambers" -- I.8.4 Aïn Labakha (Kharga Oasis), Sanctuary of Piyris -- I.8.5 Qaṣr el-Aguz (Western Thebes), Temple of Thoth -- I.8.6 Elephantine, Temple of Khnum, Shrine of Espemet(?) -- I.8.7 Esna/Latopolis, Temple of Khnum -- I.8.8 Triphion/Athribis, Unidentified Sanctuary -- I.8.9 Karnak (or Modern "Birbeh"?) -- I.8.10 Talmis, Sanctuary of Mandoulis -- I.9 Cyrenaica -- I.9.1 Cyrene, Sanctuary of Iatros I.9.2 Balagrae, Sanctuary of Asklepios Iatros -- I.10 Sardinia -- I.10.1 Unknown Hero Sanctuary -- I.11 Hispania Citerior -- I.11.1 Unidentified Sanctuary at Los Casares (Valdemoro Sierra, Cuenca) -- I.11.2 Unidentified Sanctuary at Cueva de la Santa Cruz (Conquezuela, Soria) -- Appendix II Other Forms of Direct Divination at Sanctuaries: Auditory Epiphanies, Induced Visions, and the Question of Voice-Oracles in Egypt -- II.1 Auditory Oracles in the Greek World -- II.2 Visions and Sounds at the Trophonion -- II.3 Voice-Oracles in Egypt -- Appendix III Sources for "Fertility Incubation" from Greece, Egypt and the Ancient Near East -- III.1 Introduction -- III.2 Greek Cults -- III.3 Greco-Roman Egypt -- III.4 The Hittite Ritual of Paškuwatti -- Appendix IV Proxy Incubation and Priestly Incubation -- Appendix V The Language of Pre-Incubatory Prayer -- Appendix VI Dietary Restrictions, Fasting and Incubation -- Appendix VII Were the Sexes Separated During Incubation? -- Appendix VIIII llustrated Catalog of Incubation Reliefs from the Cults of Asklepios and Amphiaraos -- VIII.1 Asklepios at the Athenian and Peiraeus Asklepieia -- VIII.1.1 Peiraeus Asklepieion -- VIII.1.2 Athenian Asklepieion -- VIII.2 Amphiaraos at the Oropos and Rhamnous Amphiareia -- VIII.2.1 Oropos Amphiareion -- VIII.2.2 Modern Kalamos (Oropos, Amphiareion?) -- VIII.2.3 Rhamnous Amphiareion -- Appendix IX Incubation Reliefs beyond Attica? -- Appendix X Problems Concerning the Early Cult and Oracle of Amphiaraos -- Appendix XI Hypnos/Somnus and Oneiros as Evidence for Incubation at Asklepieia: A Reassessment -- Appendix XII Libanius and Asklepios: A Case Study -- XII.1 Introduction -- XII.2 Libanius's Medical History -- XII.3 Libanius and Asklepios -- XII.4 Libanius and Aristides -- XII.5 Libanius's other Non-medical Options -- XII.6 Conclusion Appendix XIII The "Letter on a Stele" as Possible Evidence for Incubation in Third Millennium bce Egypt -- Appendix XIV Dream Interpreters and Incubation at Egyptian Sanctuaries -- Appendix XV Egyptian Festivals and Divinatory Incubation -- Appendix XVI Incubation in Late Antique Christianity: A Bibliographical Survey and Analysis of the Sources -- XVI.1 Introduction -- XVI.2 Incubation in the Byzantine East -- XVI.3 Incubation in the Medieval West -- XVI.4 Sources for Christian Incubation as Evidence for Incubation in Ancient Cults -- XVI.5 Is "Christian Incubation" a Misleading Category of Religious Practice? -- XVI.6 Conclusion -- Appendix XVII Lepers' Visions at Hammat Gader (Emmatha): A Form of Incubation in Late Antique Syria? -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- I. Museums and Collections -- II. Greco-Roman Works of Art in Catalogs and Other Publications -- III. Ancient Near Eastern Sources -- IV. Biblical Passages -- V. Sources from Pharaonic, Greco-Roman and Byzantine Egypt (and Nubia) -- VI. Greek and Latin Epigraphical Sources (excluding Egyptian corpora) -- VII. Greek and Roman Literature, Christian Texts, and other Post-Classical Writings -- Index Verborum -- General Index -- Concordances to Index Locorum |
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| ISBN: | 9004330232 |