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Synesius essay De insomniis (`On Dreams ) - written soon after 400 AD by a man who was not only a highly educated Greek intellectual but also (in the last years of his life) a Christian bishop of the city of Ptolemais (Cyrenaica) - inquires into the ways and means by which a human being, while sleeping and dreaming, may make contact with higher spheres, and it does so in the light of a clearly recognizable Neo-Platonic concept of the soul and its salvation. Synesius thoughts are thus an important contribution of Later Antiquity on topics - the place of man within the universe and his means of communication with higher powers - that not only were of high concern for his contemporaries, but still are today for religiously- and philosophically-minded people. Besides introduction and translation (with notes), several essays shed light on the work from the perspective of various disciplines.

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• Full title: On Prophecy, Dreams and Human Imagination
• Subtitle: Synesius, De insomniis. Introduction, Text, Translation and Interpretative Essays
• Author: Donald A. Russell, Heinz-Günther Nesselrath
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 218
• EAN: 9783161524196
• ISBN: 3161524195
• ID: 09158100
• Publisher: JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)
• Weight: 436 g
• Dimensions: 149 × 230 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. December 2014

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