Ancient Dream Manual - Artemidorus'' the Interpretation of Dreams

Accompanying the new translation of Artemidorus' The Interpretation of Dreams in the Oxford World's Classics series, this volume aims to provide the non-specialist reader with a readable and engaging road-map to this vast and complex text and to the theory and practice of dream-interpretation in antiquity.

List of contents

• Frontmatter


• List of Illustrations


• Maps


• 1: The Snake and the Whale


• 2: Artemidorus and the Oneirocritica


• 3: How to Interpret a Dream


• 4: The Body


• 5: Sexuality and Gender


• 6: The Natural World


• 7: Cities of Dreams


• 8: Books and Literary Culture


• 9: The Gods


• 10: Festivals and Games


• 11: Status and Values


• 12: An Invisible Empire


• Epilogue: Artemidorus after Antiquity


• Endmatter


• Further Reading


• Index

About the author

Peter Thonemann teaches Greek and Roman history at Wadham College, Oxford. His published books include The Birth of Classical Europe: From Troy to Augustine (Allen Lane, 2010; with Simon Price), The Maeander Valley: A Historical Geography from Antiquity to Byzantium (CUP, 2011; winner of the Runciman Prize 2012), The Hellenistic World: Using Coins as Sources (CUP, 2015; joint winner of the Royal Numismatic Society's Lhotka Memorial Prize 2018), and The Hellenistic Age, 323-30 BC (OUP, 2016). He also writes regularly on all aspects of the ancient world for the Times Literary Supplement and the Wall Street Journal.

Summary

Accompanying the new translation of Artemidorus' The Interpretation of Dreams in the Oxford World's Classics series, this volume aims to provide the non-specialist reader with a readable and engaging road-map to this vast and complex text and to the theory and practice of dream-interpretation in antiquity.

Additional text

written in clear language, aimed at comprehension rather than ostentatious exhibitionism ... For those scholars wishing to delve deeper into the text, Thonemann grounds his analysis in linguistic knowledge too ... References to modern examples also provide greater understanding and supporting points with evidence from other ancient texts offer the reader a more substantial basis on which to study this unique text within the ancient context.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Thonemann, Peter (Forrest-Derow Fellow and Tutor i Thonemann, Peter (Forrest-Derow Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History Thonemann, Thonemann Peter
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9780198843825
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884382-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Social & cultural history, SELF-HELP / Dreams, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Dreams and their interpretation, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Dreams & Their Interpretation