A Byzantine book on dream interpretation : the Oneirocriticon of Achmet and its Arabic sources / Maria V. Mavroudi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mavroudi, Maria V., author.

Series:

The Medieval Mediterranean ; 36.

The Medieval Mediterranean ; 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dreams--Early works to 1800.

Dreams.

Dream interpretation--Byzantine Empire.

Dream interpretation.

Popular culture--Byzantine Empire--Arabic influences.

Popular culture.

Achmet, active 10th century. Biblion oneirokritikon--Textual analysis.

Achmet.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Brill 2002

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, [2002]

Language Note:

Some text in Greek and Arabic.

Summary:

This volume discusses the so-called Oneirocriticon of Achmet , the most important Byzantine work on dream interpretation which was written in Greek in the 10th century and has greatly influenced subsequent dreambooks in Byzantine Greek, Medieval Latin, and modern European languages. By comparing the Oneirocriticon with the 2nd-century A.D. dreambook of Artemidoros (translated into Arabic in the 9th century) and five medieval Arabic dreambooks, this study demonstrates that the Oneirocriticon is a Christian Greek adaption of Islamic Arabic material and that the similarities between it and Artemidoros are due to the influence of Artemidoros on the Arabic sources of the Byzantine work. The Oneirocriticon 's textual tradition, its language, the identities of its author and patron, and its position among other Byzantine translations from Arabic into Greek are also investigated.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Author's Note

1. The Author of the Oneirocriticon and His Sources 1

2. The Language of the Oneirocriticon 63

3. The Manuscript Tradition, Translations, Editions 91

4. Comparing Artemidoros and Arabic Dream Interpretation with the Oneirocriticon 128

5. Dream Interpretations Common to the Oneirocriticon, Artemidoros and the Arabic Dreambooks 168

6. Syriac and Christian Arabic Dream Interpretations 237

7. The Christian and Islamic Aspects of the Oneirocriticon 256

8. Reflections of the Old and the New Testament in the Interpretations of the Oneirocriticon 353

9. Thirteen Anecdotes Quoted in the Oneirocriticon 375

10. The Oneirocriticon and Byzantine Intellectual Activity in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries 392

App. 1 The Variants of Paris. Suppl. gr. 690 in Arabic Sources 431

App. 2 Interpretations from the Liber Thesauri Occulti that do not occur in the Oneirocriticon or Artemidoros 445

App. 3 Christian Passages from al-Dinawari 451

App. 4 Words in the Oneirocriticon Unattested in Other Greek Texts 466

Bibliography 473

Sources 473

Secondary Literature 479

General Index 507.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

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Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789004473461

9004473467

OCLC:

1492985296

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004473461 DOI