Table of Contents

Introduction1. Mapping out Communitas: Performances of Theoria in their Sacred and Political Context, Barbara Kowalzig2. Hiketai and Theoroi at Epidaurus, Fred Naiden3. Pilgrimage to the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi: Patterns of Public and Private Consultation, Michael Arnush4. Pilgrimage and Greek Religion: Sacred and Secular in the Pagan Polis, Scott Scullion5. Downstream to the Cat-Goddess: Herodotus on Egyptian Pilgrimage, Ian Rutherford6. The Philosopher at the Festival: Plato's Transformation of Traditional Theoria, Andrea Wilson-Nightingale7. The Body in Space: Visual Dynamics in Graeco-Roman Healing Pilgrimage, Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis8. Mucianus and a Touch of the Miraculous: Pilgrimage and Tourism in Roman Asia Minor, George Williamson9. Pilgrimage as Elite Habitus: Educated Pilgrims in Sacred Landscape during the Second Sophistic, Marco Galli10. The Construction of Religious Space in Pausanias, William Hutton11. A Journey to the End of the World, Andrew Fear12. Pilgrims and Ethnographers: In Search of the Syrian Goddess, J. L. Lightfoot13. Divine and Human Feet: Records of Pilgrims Honouring Isis, Sarolta A. Takacs14. Rabbi Aqiba Comes to Rome: A Jewish Pilgrimage in Reverse, David Noy15. ‘Interningled until the end of time': Ambiguity as a Central Condition of Early Christian Pilgrimage, Wendy Pullan16. Piety and Passion: Contest and Consensus in Audiences for Early Christian Pilgrimage, Jas' Elsner17. Urban Shrine and Rural Saint in Fifth-Century Alexandria, David Frankfurter