Allegorical dreams in antiquity. Their character and interpretation

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Allegorical dreams in antiquity. Their character and interpretation

Original language description

The article discusses the nature of the so-called allegorical dreams in Classical antiquity (especially Greek). The author first surveys what kind of content and form these dreams had, who dreamed them and under what circumstances they were dreamed, what the reaction to them was and how they were understood. The article subsequently examines the relationship between allegorical dreams and dream symbols and reaches the conclusion that allegorical dreams weren’t formed by dream symbols that had a constant and always valid meaning, but instead by the context, that is, by the situation in which the dreamer found him or herself and which the dream imagination in one way or the other reshaped. This context constituted the first and most important criterion for the dream interpretors because, depending on it, the absolute majority of dream symbols changed, or could change, their meaning. Until a sufficiently high number of semantically stable symbols (which certainly didn’t exist until Roman times) had developed, standardized dreambooks, which provided lists of symbols with an unchanging and definitively given meaning, couldn’t arise.

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60304 - Religious studies

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Wiener Studien. Zeitschrift für klassische Philologie, Patristik und lateinische Tradition

ISSN

0084-005X

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Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

130

Country of publishing house

AT - AUSTRIA

Number of pages

26

Pages from-to

127-152

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85021655245