Sleep and Dreams in Early Greek Thought: Presocratic and Hippocratic Approaches

ISBN-13: 9780367209162 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 224 str.

Stephanie Holton

Opis

This book examines how sleep and dreams were approached in early Greek thought, highlighting the theories of the Presocratic and Hippocratic writers on both phenomena as more varied, complex and substantial than is usually credited.

 

Recenzje

"[Holton's] decision to look at the physiological and psychological dimensions of sleep alongside dreams adds a new dimension to discussions of Greek dreaming. The practical organization of this book and the range of passages that it discusses guarantee that anyone interested in Greek dreams and their interpretations will return to it again and again. Holton's attempt to trace the origins and development of Greek ideas about dreams before Plato, Aristotle, and Artemidorus has produced a clear, useful map for future explorers of the Greek dream-world. It remains true, I think, that Aristotle is the first Greek author to advance a comprehensive and physiological theory of sleeping and dreaming, but Holton shows that a rich tradition of speculation on these topics existed more than a century earlier." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Spis treści

Introduction;  1. Sleep and Dreams in Context;  2. Sleep, Dreams, and Heraclitus;  3. Sleep, Dreams, and the Body;  4. Sleep, Dreams, and the Soul;  5. Interpretation of Dreams;  Conclusion