Ancient science and dreams : oneirology in Greco-Roman antiquity / M. Andrew Holowchak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holowchak, M. Andrew (Mark Andrew), 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dreams--History.

Dreams.

History.

Civilization, Greco-Roman.

Physical Description:

xxi, 187 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2002]

Contents:

Chapter 1 Science: Yesterday and Today 1

Part I Naturalistic Oneirology 19

Chapter 2 Teleological Naturalism in Plato's Timaeus 25

Chapter 3 Aristotle's Oneirological Materialism 39

Chapter 4 Lucretius' Ivory-White "Images" of Night 53

Part II Oneirocriticism 69

Chapter 5 Stoic Oneiromancy in Cicero's de Divinatione 73

Chapter 6 Artemidorus' Onirocritica 93

Chapter 7 Synesius' Mantic Science in On Dreams 107

Part III Oneirology and Ancient Medicine 125

Chapter 8 Diagnostic Dreams in Hippocratic Medicine 129

Chapter 9 Dreams in Early Roman Secular Medicine 139

Chapter 10 Healing Dreams in Religious Incubation 151

Appendix A Key Figures/Works in Greco-Roman Oneirology 165

Appendix B Galen's On Diagnosis from Dreams 166

Appendix C Secular Medicine and Religious Incubation 168.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-181) and index.

ISBN:

0761821570

OCLC:

48256258