Il corpo "eccedente" del visionario e la sua neutralizzazione polemica tra mondo ellenistico-romano e cristianesimo antico

This essay aims at analyzing the function and the role of body in visionary experiences and/or accounts from ancient Christianity. Starting from some early Christian texts (Iren., Adv. Har.; Eus. Caes., Dem. Ev.), the analysis covers a strict comparison with other visionary experiences from Hellenistic-Roman world (of which early Christianity is obviously part), and such a comparative platform allows to show the significance and the cultural values of the body in both the visionary experience (or the supposedly visionary experience) and the written reconfiguration in texts arising (or supposedly arising) from that experience.