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Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire: Cultural Memory and Imagination
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Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire: Cultural Memory and Imagination Hardcover - 2013 - 1st Edition

by Juliette Harrisson


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  • Title Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire: Cultural Memory and Imagination
  • Author Juliette Harrisson
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
  • Date 2013-09-05
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover
  • ISBN 9781441176332 / 1441176330
  • Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6 x 0.9 in (23.62 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Italy
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Classics
  • Dewey Decimal Code 937

About the author

Juliette Harrisson is Lecturer in Ancient History at Newman University. Her chief research interests lie in ancient myth and religion in the Roman Empire, studied through the theoretical framework of cultural memory and in the reception of the Classical world in modern popular culture.

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London: Bloomsbury, 2013. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. An excellent copy in great condition. Slight wear to cover. All pages clean, crisp and fresh. Publisher's note: This volume offers a fresh approach to the study of ancient dreams by asking not what the ancients dreamed or how they experienced dreaming, but why the Romans considered dreams to be important and worthy of recording. Dream reports from historical and imaginative literature from the high point of the Roman Empire (the first two centuries AD) are analysed as objects of cultural memory, records of events of cultural significance that contribute to the formation of a group's cultural identity. The book also introduces the term 'cultural imagination', as a tool for thinking about ancient myth and religion, and avoiding the question of 'belief', which arises mainly from creed-based religions. The book's conclusion compares dream reports in the Classical world with modern attitudes towards dreams and dreaming, identifying distinctive… Read More
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