Sulle Nere Ali dei Sogni. Costantino Manasse e L'ambiguitá Onirica
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Aglae M. V. Pizzone
Abstract
Moving from four fragments of Aristander and Callithea (47, 103, 115, 152), this article explores the narrative and ideological meaning of dreams in Constantine Manasses' narrative. Fr. 47, in particular, encloses a quotation from Euripides (Hecuba 72), which has been put in connection with the commentary on Aristotle's work De divinatione per somnia written by Michael of Ephesus. Nevertheless the arguments for a direct connection between the two texts are not cogent. On the contrary there is a wide range of patristic, theological and philosophical texts showing a strong and ongoing interest in Byzantine culture for the psychological aspects of the oneiric processes. This background is reflected both in Constantine's novel and in his Chronicle, where he reworks and adapts the contemporary debates for narrative purposes.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Siglenverzeichnis
- The Metre in the poems of Christopher Mitylenaios
- An Alanic Marginal Note and The Exact Date of John II's Battle with the Pechenegs
- Beobachtungen zum Taktikon Escorialense
- Organization, Market Structure and Modus Operandi of the Guild-Organized Leather Manufacturing Industry in Tenth-Century Constantinople
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- Two Praises of the Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos: Problems of Authorship
- Vita Sancti Marciani Oeconomi
- A Reappraisal of the Chronicle of Theodore of Kyzikos
- II. Abteilung
- Bibliographische Notizen und Mitteilungen
- Autoren- und Herausgeberverzeichnis zur Bibliographie von Band 103, Heft I und II
