The history and literature of the Roman Empire is full of reports
of dream prophecies, dream ghosts and dream gods. 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 features of both the
world of the Romans and our own culture.
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