Ancient Science and Dreams: Oneirology in Greco-Roman AntiquityIn Ancient Science and Dreams, M. Andrew Holowchak analyzes the ancient notion of science of dreams throughout Greco-Roman antiquity, from the Classical Greece in the fifth century B.C. to the Roman Republic in the fourth century A.D. Holowchak investigates psycho-physiological accounts, interpretation of prophetic dreams, and the use of dreams in secular and non-secular medicine. Culling from some of the fullest and most important accounts of dreams and ordering the presentation in each section chronologically, the author analyzes the extent to which empirical and non-empirical factors guided ancient accounts in Greco-Roman antiquity. |
Contents
Science Yesterday and Today | 1 |
Naturalistic Oneirology | 19 |
Introduction | 21 |
Teleological Naturalism in Platos Timaeus | 25 |
Aristotles Oneirological Materialism | 39 |
Lucretius IvoryWhite Images of Night | 53 |
Oneirocriticism | 69 |
Introduction | 71 |
Oneirology and Ancient Medicine | 125 |
Introduction | 127 |
Diagnostic Dreams in Hippocratic Medicine | 129 |
Dreams in Early Roman Secular Medicine | 139 |
Healing Dreams in Medical Incubation | 151 |
Key FiguresWorks | 165 |
Appendix B Galens Diagnosis from Dreams | 166 |
Secular Medicine and Religious Incubation | 168 |
Stoic Oneiromancy in Ciceros de Divinatione | 73 |
Artemidorus Onirocritica | 93 |
Synesius Mantic Science in On Dreams | 107 |
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