Dreams in Late Antiquity : : Studies in the Imagination of a Culture / / Patricia Cox Miller.

Dream interpretation was a prominent feature of the intellectual and imaginative world of late antiquity, for martyrs and magicians, philosophers and theologians, polytheists and monotheists alike. Finding it difficult to account for the prevalence of dream-divination, modern scholarship has often c...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology ; 647
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Part I IMAGES AND CONCEPTS OF DREAMING
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER ONE Figurations of Dreams
  • CHAPTER TWO Theories of Dreams
  • CHAPTER THREE Interpretation of Dreams
  • CHAPTER FOUR Dreams and Therapy
  • Part II DREAMERS
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER FIVE Hermas and the Shepherd
  • CHAPTER SIX Perpetua and Her Diary of Dreams
  • CHAPTER SEVEN Aelius Aristides and The Sacred Tales
  • CHAPTER EIGHT Jerome and His Dreams
  • CHAPTER NINE The Two Gregorys and Ascetic Dreaming
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index