Allegorical dreams in antiquity. Their character and interpretation

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Allegorical dreams in antiquity. Their character and interpretation

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Allegorical dreams in antiquity. Their character and interpretation

Popis výsledku anglicky

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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J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60304 - Religious studies

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

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

ISSN

0084-005X

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

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Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

130

Stát vydavatele periodika

AT - Rakouská republika

Počet stran výsledku

26

Strana od-do

127-152

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85021655245