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Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire : Cultural Memory and Imagination by Juliette Harrisson is a social science available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>The history and literature of the Roman Empire is full of reports of dream prophecies, dream ghosts and dream gods. This volume offers a fresh approach to the study of ancient dreams by asking not what the ancients dreamed or how they experienced dreaming, but why the Romans considered dreams to be important and worthy of recording. Dream reports from historical and imaginative literature from the high point of the Roman Empire (the first two centuries AD) are analysed as objects of cultural

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Juliette Harrisson
Publisher
A&C Black
Published
2013
Language
EN
ISBN
9781441136008
Category
social science
Subjects
History, Psychology, Anthropology
Updated
2026-03-25

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