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Aelius Aristides' Sacred Tales offer a unique opportunity to examine how an educated man of the Second Century CE came to terms with illness. The experiences portrayed in the Tales disclose an understanding of illness in both religious and medical terms. Aristides was a devout worshipper of Asclepius while at the same time being a patient of some of the most distinguished physicians of his day. This monograph offers a textual analysis of the Sacred Tales in the context of the so-called Second Sophistic; medicine and the medical use of dream interpretation; and religion, with particular emphasis on the cult of Asclepius and the visual means used to convey religious content.
Contents
Introduction 2 Chapter one: Aelius Aristides and the Sacred Tales 14 Introduction 14 Section one: the composition of the Sacred Tales 18 Date of composition: 18 Method of composition 20 Motives for composition 24 Section two: The Sacred Tales as an autobiography 32 Section three: the ancient readers of the Sacred Tales 36 Section four: A narrative of redemption 41 Conclusion 48 Chapter two: Society, disease and medicine in the Sacred Tales of Aristides 49 Introduction 49 Section One - The Graeco-Roman health-care system 53 Towards a definition of a medical discourse 53 Medicine in the Graeco-Roman world 58 Roman medicine and its Greek influences: 75 Galen: 83 * * * 94 Dreams 95 Section two: The sick, medicine and physicians in the world of the Sacred Tales 116 I. The place of the sick in society 117 II. Medical discourse in the Sacred Tales 118 Medical authority: 118 Medical praxis: 123 Purgation: 124 Pharmakon 129 Dreams 133 Medical procedures and the physicians: 136 III. The physicians in the Sacred Tales 139 Section Three: Towards a medical history of Aelius Aristides 143 Falling ill 146 Aristides and Asclepius 153 Wider Contexts 165 Conclusion 179 Chapter three: Reconsidering private religions; religion and religious experience in the Sacred Tales of Aelius Aristides 185 Introduction 185 Section one: Theology 190 Section two: The myth of Asclepius 198 Section three: Divination, oracles and dreams 211 Dreams 217 Oracles 222 Section four: Visual culture and social forms of cult-organisation 226 Cult, festivals and games 226 The power of images 235 Conclusion 246 Conclusion 249 Bibliography 261
