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Dreams in Cicero’s De Divinatione
Philosophical Tradition and Education
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Bram ten Berge
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March 26, 2014
Abstract
This paper proposes an explanation for the surprisingly extensive treatment of dreams in Cicero’s De divinatione. It suggests that Cicero saw an opportunity to become the first Roman author to write extensively on dreams. The paper rejects the notion that Cicero voices his personal opinion about (dream) divination, and suggests, rather, that he wished to provide for his readers a comprehensive debate of Stoic and Academic views on dreams. Finally, Cicero points to the value of this discussion when he implies that dreams have become a source of anxiety and that his account may relieve the reader of such apprehension.
Published Online: 2014-03-26
Published in Print: 2014-03
© 2014 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Masthead
- Contents
- Dreams
- Introduction
- Dreams From Homer to Plato
- Plato and Divination
- The Afterlife of a Dream and the Ritual System of the Epidaurian Asklepieion
- Dreams in Cicero’s De Divinatione
- Philo of Alexandria’s Dream Classification
- The Stuff of Dream
- Narrative and Divination: Artemidorus and Aelius Aristides
- Dangerous Dreaming: The Christian Transformation of Dream Incubation
- The gods of the others
- The others’ god(s)
- Can we understand how the Persians perceived ‘other’ gods / ‘the gods of others’?
- The Jews and their God of Wine
- Caesar on religio
- Paulus in Philippi: Ethik und Theologie
- Miscellaneous
- Cicero’s Theology and the Concept of Fate
- Supplemental Persuasive Analogies in PGM V.70–95
- Habilitation, Ruf und Inflation
