Introduction: In search of the Miraculous

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Introduction: In search of the Miraculous IX
5. I. Miracles
6. Ctesias’ Indica and the Origins of Paradoxography 3
7. The Epidaurian Iamata: The first “Court of Miracles”? 17
8. Medicine and the paradox in the Hippocratic Corpus and Beyond 31
9. ‘One might rightly wonder’ – marvelling in Polybios Histories 63
10. Omens and Miracles: Interpreting Miraculous Narratives in Roman Historiography 85
11. Miracles and Pseudo-Miracles in Byzantine Apocalypses 111
12. II. Workings of Miracles
13. Wonder-ful Memories in Herodotus’ Histories 133
14. Wonder(s) in Plautus 153
15. Telling Tales of Wonder: Mirabilia in the Letters of Pliny the Younger 179
16. Paradoxographic discourse on sources and fountains: deconstructing paradoxes 205
17. Lucian’s Alexander: technoprophecy, thaumatology and the poetics of wonder 225
18. III. Believing in Miracles
19. Perceiving Thauma in Archaic Greek Epic 259
20. Turning Science into Miracle in the Voyage of Alexander the Great 275
21. ‘Many are the wonders in Greece’: Pausanias the wandering philosopher 305
22. Miracles in Greek Biography 327
23. Apuleius on Raising the Dead Crossing the Boundaries of Life and Death while Convincing the Audience 353
24. Recognizing Miracles in ancient Greek Novels 381
25. List of Contributors 417
26. Index Nominum et Rerum 423