Studies on the Dream in Greek Literature
Author: A. H. M. Kessels
Publisher: Brill
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 294
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Author: A. H. M. Kessels
Publisher: Brill
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 294
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Antonius Hendrik Maria Kessels
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 202
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: A H M Kessels
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9004611517
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Devereux
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1976-01-01
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780520029217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Antonius Hendrik Maria KESSELS
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 209
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Stuart Messer
Publisher: Studies in Classical Philology
Published: 1918
Total Pages: 134
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines aspects of the dream in Homer and Greek tragedies as an originating cause or impetus of the action in a poem or play.
Author: Antonius Hendrik Maria Kessels
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Published: 1973
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark Holowchak
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780761821571
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Ancient Science and Dreams, M. Andrew Holowchak analyzes the ancient notion of science of dreams throughout Greco-Roman antiquity, from the Classical Greece in the fifth century B.C. to the Roman Republic in the fourth century A.D. Holowchak investigates psycho-physiological accounts, interpretation of prophetic dreams, and the use of dreams in secular and non-secular medicine. Culling from some of the fullest and most important accounts of dreams and ordering the presentation in each section chronologically, the author analyzes the extent to which empirical and non-empirical factors guided ancient accounts in Greco-Roman antiquity.
Author: Sidarta Ribeiro
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: 2021-08-17
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 1524746916
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA groundbreaking history of the human mind told through our experience of dreams—from the earliest accounts to current scientific findings—and their essential role in the formation of who we are and the world we have made. "A resounding case for the mystery, beauty and cognitive importance of dreams." —The New York Times What is a dream? Why do we dream? How do our bodies and minds use them? These questions are the starting point for this unprecedented study of the role and significance of this phenomenon. An investigation on a grand scale, it encompasses literature, anthropology, religion, and science, articulating the essential place dreams occupy in human culture and how they functioned as the catalyst that compelled us to transform our earthly habitat into a human world. From the earliest cave paintings—where Sidarta Ribeiro locates a key to humankind’s first dreams and how they contributed to our capacity to perceive past and future and our ability to conceive of the existence of souls and spirits—to today’s cutting-edge scientific research, Ribeiro arrives at revolutionary conclusions about the role of dreams in human existence and evolution. He explores the advances that contemporary neuroscience, biochemistry, and psychology have made into the connections between sleep, dreams, and learning. He explains what dreams have taught us about the neural basis of memory and the transformation of memory in recall. And he makes clear that the earliest insight into dreams as oracular has been elucidated by contemporary research. Accessible, authoritative, and fascinating, The Oracle of Night gives us a wholly new way to understand this most basic of human experiences.
Author: Michael Lipka
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2021-12-06
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 3110638851
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile modern students of Greek religion are alert to the occasion-boundedness of epiphanies and divinatory dreams in Greek polytheism, they are curiously indifferent to the generic parameters of the relevant textual representations on which they build their argument. Instead, generic questions are normally left to the literary critic, who in turn is less interested in religion. To evaluate the relation of epiphanies and divinatory dreams to Greek polytheism, the book investigates relevant representations through all major textual genres in pagan antiquity. The evidence of the investigated genres suggests that the ‘epiphany-mindedness’ of the Greeks, postulated by most modern critics, is largely an academic chimaera, a late-comer of Christianizing 19th-century-scholarship. It is primarily founded on a misinterpretation of Homer’s notorious anthropomorphism (in the Iliad and Odyssey but also in the Homeric Hymns). This anthropomorphism, which is keenly absorbed by Greek drama and figural art, has very little to do with the religious lifeworld experience of the ancient Greeks, as it appears in other genres. By contrast, throughout all textual genres investigated here, divinatory dreams are represented as an ordinary and real part of the ancient Greeks' lifeworld experience.