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Record Nr.

UNINA9910296435303321

Autore

Russell Donald A

Titolo

On Prophecy, Dreams and Human Imagination : : Synesius, De insommniis / / Donald  A. Russell, Heinz-Günther Nesselrath

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mohr Siebeck, 2014

Tubingen : , : Mohr Siebeck, , 2014

ISBN

9783161564314

3161564316

Edizione

[1. Aufl.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Collana

Scripta Antiquitatis Posterioris ad Ethicam REligionemque pertinentia ; 222

Disciplina

290

Soggetti

Religion

Language Arts & Disciplines

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.