Recognizing Miracles in Antiquity and Beyond.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: In search of the Miraculous -- I. Miracles -- Ctesias' Indica and the Origins of Paradoxography -- The Epidaurian Iamata: The first "Court of Miracles"? -- Medicine and the paradox in the Hippocratic Corpus and Beyond -- 'One might rightly wonder' - marvelling in Polybios Histories -- Omens and Miracles: Interpreting Miraculous Narratives in Roman Historiography -- Miracles and Pseudo-Miracles in Byzantine Apocalypses -- II. Workings of Miracles -- Wonder-ful Memories in Herodotus' Histories -- Wonder(s) in Plautus -- Telling Tales of Wonder: Mirabilia in the Letters of Pliny the Younger -- Paradoxographic discourse on sources and fountains: deconstructing paradoxes -- Lucian's Alexander: technoprophecy, thaumatology and the poetics of wonder -- III. Believing in Miracles -- Perceiving Thauma in Archaic Greek Epic -- Turning Science into Miracle in the Voyage of Alexander the Great -- 'Many are the wonders in Greece': Pausanias the wandering philosopher -- Miracles in Greek Biography -- Apuleius on Raising the Dead Crossing the Boundaries of Life and Death while Convincing the Audience -- Recognizing Miracles in ancient Greek Novels -- List of Contributors -- Index Nominum et Rerum.

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