Pilgrimage as Elite Habitus

Educated Pilgrims in Sacred Landscape During the Second Sophistic

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ID23403131
AuthorsMarco Galli (0000-0002-0311-5458, corresponding author)
Year2007
Pages253-290
Publication date2007-12-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenuePilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199237913.003.0010
OpenAlexW2506156397
ISBN9780199237913
LanguageEN
Citations received7

This chapter looks at the vogue for cultural pilgrimage among the ruling class, a vogue that developed during the Antonine Age, particularly in the Eastern half of the Empire. Among the centres for this activity it considers are major sanctuaries such as Delphi, the Asklepieion of Pergamon, and the Artemision of Ephesos, sites of expensive dedications by members of the Roman elite, and also remote, rural sanctuaries of the sort established by Aelius Aristides and Herodes Atticus. The chapter explores the reasons for this development, which may have included rivalry between elites belonging to different cities and a change in attitudes to religion in the Antonine Age.

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Capital (architecture) · Elite · Empire · Habitus · Pilgrimage · Political science · Politics · Rivalry · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · History · Law

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