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Dreams, Healing, and Medicine in Greece - From Antiquity to the Present (Paperback)
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Dreams, Healing, and Medicine in Greece - From Antiquity to the Present (Paperback)
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This volume centers on dreams in Greek medicine from the
fifth-century B.C.E. Hippocratic Regimen down to the modern era.
Medicine is here defined in a wider sense than just formal medical
praxis, and includes non-formal medical healing methods such as
folk pharmacopeia, religion, 'magical' methods (e.g., amulets,
exorcisms, and spells), and home remedies. This volume examines how
in Greek culture dreams have played an integral part in formal and
non-formal means of healing. The papers are organized into three
major diachronic periods. The first group focuses on the classical
Greek through late Roman Greek periods. Topics include dreams in
the Hippocratic corpus; the cult of the god Asclepius and its
healing centers, with their incubation and miracle dream-cures;
dreams in the writings of Galen and other medical writers of the
Roman Empire; and medical dreams in popular oneirocritic texts,
especially the second-century C.E. dreambook by Artemidorus of
Daldis, the most noted professional dream interpreter of antiquity.
The second group of papers looks to the Christian Byzantine era,
when dream incubation and dream healings were practised at churches
and shrines, carried out by living and dead saints. Also discussed
are dreams as a medical tool used by physicians in their hospital
praxis and in the practical medical texts (iatrosophia) that they
and laypeople consulted for the healing of disease. The final
papers deal with dreams and healing in Greece from the Turkish
period of Greece down to the current day in the Greek islands. The
concluding chapter brings the book a full circle by discussing how
modern psychotherapists and psychologists use Ascelpian
dream-rituals on pilgrimages to Greece.
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