Chapter 1: Dreams in Antiquity

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part 1: Ancient Dreams and the Asclepius Dream Cult
7. Chapter 1: Dreams in Antiquity 13
8. Chapter 2: Pharmacology and Alchemy in Antiquity 47
9. Chapter 3: The Dream of Aelius Aristides 77
10. Part II: Dreams and Early Christian Cults
11. Chapter 4: Dreams in Early Christian Sources 113
12. Chapter 5: The Passion of Perpetua 155
13. Chapter 6: Gregory of Nazianzus and St. Augustine 185
14. Conclusion: Dreams and Healing in Early Christian and Asclepius Cults 199
15. Appendix A: PGM Texts in Relation to Dreams and Healing 215
16. Appendix B: Texts of Aristides’s and the Asclepius Cult 221
17. Bibliography 225
18. Index 235