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On Prophecy, Dreams and Human Imagination: Synesius, de Insomniis

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On Prophecy, Dreams and Human Imagination: Synesius, de Insomniis - Russell, Donald A (Editor), and Nesselrath, Heinz-Gunther (Editor)
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Synesius' essay De insomniis (`On Dreams') - written soon after 400 AD by a man who was not only a highly educated Greek intellectual but also (in the last years of his life) a Christian bishop of the city of Ptolemais (Cyrenaica) - inquires into the ways and means by which a human being, while sleeping and dreaming, may make contact with higher spheres, and it does so in the light of a clearly recognizable Neo-Platonic concept of the soul and its salvation. Synesius' thoughts are thus an important contribution of Later ...

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On Prophecy, Dreams and Human Imagination: Synesius, de Insomniis 2014, Mohr Siebeck, Tuebingen

ISBN-13: 9783161524196

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