Dreams and experience in classical antiquity / William V. Harris.
"From the Iliad to Aristophanes, from the gospel of Matthew to Augustine, Greek and Latin texts are constellated with descriptive images of dreams. Some are formulaic, others intensely vivid. The best ancient minds -- Plato, Aristotle, the physician Galen, and others -- struggled to understand...
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Harvard University Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : then and now
- From epiphany to episode : a revolution in the description of dreams
- Greek and Roman dreams that were really dreamt
- Greek and Roman opinions about the truthfulness of dreams
- Naturalistic explanations.