On Prophecy, Dreams and Human Imagination : : Synesius, De insommniis / / Donald A. Russell, Heinz-Günther Nesselrath.
Synesius' essay De insomniis ('On Dreams') inquires into the meaning and importance of dreams for human beings and treats themes - most of all the relationship of humans to higher spheres -, which for religiously- and philosophically-minded people are still important today.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Tubingen : : Mohr Siebeck,, 2014. |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | 1. Aufl. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Scripta Antiquitatis Posterioris ad Ethicam REligionemque pertinentia
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (219 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Text [of De insomniis], translation and notes / text and translation by Donald A. Russell
- Essays. Outline of a general history of speculation about dreams / Ursula Bittrich
- Phantasia in De insomniis / Anne Sheppard
- Dream divination and the neoplatonic search for salvation / Sebastian Gertz
- Synesius and the pneumatic vehicle of the soul in early neoplatonism / Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler
- Rhetoric in De insomniis : critique and practice / Donald A. Russell
- Nikephoros Gregoras' commentary on Synesius, De insomniis / Börje Bydén.