An Ancient Dream Manual: Artemidorus' the Interpretation of Dreams

ISBN-13: 9780198843825 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 256 str.

Peter Thonemann

Opis

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.

Recenzje

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.

O autorze

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.