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

By Mirjam E. Kotwick
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By Mirjam E. Kotwick
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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, Aeschylus, Herodotus, Antiphon, the Hippocratic doctors, Plato, and Aristotle. In these works, dreams signify meaning in indirect, distorted, figurati...

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