Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity write by William V. Harris. This book was released on 2009-10-15. Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 the meaning of dreams. With Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity the renowned ancient historian William Harris turns his attention to oneiric matters. This cultural history of dreams in antiquity draws on both contemporary post-Freudian science and careful critiques of the ancient texts. Harris traces the history of characteristic forms of dream-description and relates them both to the ancient experience of dreaming and to literary and religious imperatives. He analyzes the nuances of Greek and Roman belief in the truth-telling potential of dreams, and in a final chapter offers an assessment of ancient attempts to understand dreams naturalistically. How did dreaming culture evolve from Homer’s time to late antiquity? What did these dreams signify? And how do we read and understand ancient dreams through modern eyes? Harris takes an elusive subject and writes about it with rigor and precision, reminding us of specificities, contexts, and changing attitudes through history.
Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity
Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity write by William V Harris. This book was released on 2009-10-15. Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the Iliad to Aristophanes, from the gospel of Matthew to Augustine, Greek and Latin texts are constellated with descriptive images of dreams. This cultural history of dreams in antiquity draws on both contemporary post-Freudian science and careful critiques of the ancient texts. Harris takes an elusive subject and writes about it with rigor and precision, reminding us of specificities, contexts, and changing attitudes through history.
Dreams, Healing, and Medicine in Greece
Dreams, Healing, and Medicine in Greece - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dreams, Healing, and Medicine in Greece write by Professor Steven M Oberhelman. This book was released on 2013-06-28. Dreams, Healing, and Medicine in Greece available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume centers on dreams in Greek medicine from the fifth-century B.C.E. Hippocratic Regimen down to the modern era. Medicine is here defined in a wider sense than just formal medical praxis, and includes non-formal medical healing methods such as folk pharmacopeia, religion, ’magical’ methods (e.g., amulets, exorcisms, and spells), and home remedies. This volume examines how in Greek culture dreams have played an integral part in formal and non-formal means of healing. The papers are organized into three major diachronic periods. The first group focuses on the classical Greek through late Roman Greek periods. Topics include dreams in the Hippocratic corpus; the cult of the god Asclepius and its healing centers, with their incubation and miracle dream-cures; dreams in the writings of Galen and other medical writers of the Roman Empire; and medical dreams in popular oneirocritic texts, especially the second-century C.E. dreambook by Artemidorus of Daldis, the most noted professional dream interpreter of antiquity. The second group of papers looks to the Christian Byzantine era, when dream incubation and dream healings were practised at churches and shrines, carried out by living and dead saints. Also discussed are dreams as a medical tool used by physicians in their hospital praxis and in the practical medical texts (iatrosophia) that they and laypeople consulted for the healing of disease. The final papers deal with dreams and healing in Greece from the Turkish period of Greece down to the current day in the Greek islands. The concluding chapter brings the book a full circle by discussing how modern psychotherapists and psychologists use Ascelpian dream-rituals on pilgrimages to Greece.
Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire
Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire write by Juliette Harrisson. This book was released on 2013-09-05. Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An investigation into dream reports in the history and literature of early Roman culture.
Dreams and History
Dreams and History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dreams and History write by Daniel Pick. This book was released on 2004-08-02. Dreams and History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dreams and History contains important new scholarship on Freud's Interpretation of Dreams (1900) and subsequent psychoanalytical approaches from distinguished historians, psychoanalysts, historians of science and anthropologists.
