Truly Beyond Wonders - Petsalis-Diomidis, Alexia (Lecturer in Classical Art and Archaeology, Corpus Christi College, Oxford and Lecturer in Classical Greek Art, King's College London)

A fully illustrated study of healing pilgrimage in the Roman empire during the second century AD. The focus is upon one particular pilgrim, the famous orator Aelius Aristides, whose Sacred Tales is examined in the context of the sanctuary of Asklepios at Pergamon, where the author spent two years in search of healing.