UID:
almahu_9949711334702882
Format:
1 online resource (219 p.)
Edition:
1. Aufl.
ISBN:
3-16-156431-6
Series Statement:
Scripta Antiquitatis Posterioris ad Ethicam REligionemque pertinentia 222
Content:
Synesius' essay De insomniis ('On Dreams') inquires into the meaning and importance of dreams for human beings and treats themes - most of all the relationship of humans to higher spheres -, which for religiously- and philosophically-minded people are still important today.
Note:
Text [of De insomniis], translation and notes / text and translation by Donald A. Russell -- Essays. Outline of a general history of speculation about dreams / Ursula Bittrich -- Phantasia in De insomniis / Anne Sheppard -- Dream divination and the neoplatonic search for salvation / Sebastian Gertz -- Synesius and the pneumatic vehicle of the soul in early neoplatonism / Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler -- Rhetoric in De insomniis : critique and practice / Donald A. Russell -- Nikephoros Gregoras' commentary on Synesius, De insomniis / Börje Bydén.
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Text of De insomniis in the original Greek with parallel English translation on facing pages.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-16-152419-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1628/978-3-16-156431-4
