Dreams in Late Antiquity by Patricia Cox Miller
Dream interpretation was a prominent feature of the intellectual and imaginative world of late antiquity, for martyrs and magicians, philosophers, polytheists and monotheists alike. This book draws on pagan, Jewish, and Christian sources and modern semiotic theory to demonstrate the integral importance of dreams in late-antique thought and life.
"Patricia Cox Miller should be commended for having cast her net wideHer book, indeed, represents the first sustained effort to present and analyze the place of dreams in the culture of the Roman Empire, from the second to the fifth centuries... By studying together pagan and Christian dreams, Cox Miller hopes to reach a better understanding of some fundamental patterns of late antique culture."--Guy G. Stroumsa, The Journal of Religion "A fluent and discursive text... This is an adventurous exploration of a range of material which deserves to be more widely known."--Gillian Clark, The Classical Review
Patricia Cox Miller is Associate Professor of Religion at Syracuse University. She is the author of Biography in Late Antiquity: A Quest for the Holy Man.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691058351 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691058350 |
| Title | Dreams in Late Antiquity |
| Author | Patricia Cox Miller |
| Series | Mythos: The Princeton Bollingen Series In World Mythology |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 1998-01-11 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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