The Ancient Interpretation of Dreams : Early Greek Hermeneutics and Its Sources.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kotwick, Mirjam E.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2026.

Summary:

The first book-length study of dream interpretation in classical Greece Long before Freud, dreams and how to make sense of them fascinated ancient thinkers.In The Ancient Interpretation of Dreams , Mirjam Kotwick traces a continuous intellectual practice of dream interpretation across a range of ancient Greek texts, including those from Homer.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I. Divine Dreams

1. Penelope's Dream: Similarities and Hermeneutic Disbelief (Odyssey 19)

2. Divine Dreams and Human Hermeneutics: Aeschylus, Herodotus, and Euripides

3. Socrates the Diviner: Plato on Dreams and Their Interpretation (Crito, Phaedo, and Timaeus)

Part II. Interpretation Beyond Dreams

4. Dream Hermeneutics, Literary Criticism, and Linguistics in the Fifth Century BCE

Part III. Dreams of the Body

5. Dreams of the Mind and "Conjectures of an Intelligent Human": Antiphon in Context

6. Medicine, Metaphysics, Metaphor or "Everything Is Like though Unlike": Dream Interpretation in the Hippocratic On Regimen

7. "Spotting Similarities": Aristotle on Dreams and Their Interpretation

8. Conclusion and Epilogue

Bibliography

Index Locorum

General Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-691-27418-5

0-691-28699-X

9780691274188

OCLC:

1584457941