{"title":"The Gods","authors":"P. Thonemann","doi":"10.2307/j.ctt22nm6fx.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt22nm6fx.14","url":null,"abstract":"Artemidorus has long been recognized as an important source for epiphany-dreams, local Greek cult-practices, and ideas about the Greek pantheon. This chapter serves as a companion to his account of dreams about the gods in Book 2 of the Oneirocritica, with extended discussion of his classification of the gods (intelligible and sensible; ethereal, celestial, terrestrial, marine, subterranean, encircling), his curious lack of interest in deities outside the ‘standard’ Greek pantheon (including most local Anatolian deities), and his views on the alleged divine origin of dreams. His attitude towards incubation-sanctuaries seems to have been ambivalent at best, for what may have been rather practical professional reasons.","PeriodicalId":113664,"journal":{"name":"An Ancient Dream Manual","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123153146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Body","authors":"P. Thonemann","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198843825.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198843825.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on Oneirocritica Book 1, which is largely dedicated to the human body and body-symbolism, and examines the ways in which Artemidorus’ conception of the body and its functions might be historically and culturally distinctive. Artemidorus offers us a remarkably detailed and coherent ‘tour’ of the symbolic meanings of the constituent parts of the male and female body, based around a series of polarities (upper and lower, right and left, front and back), which reflect three different dimensions of the social order (status, age, gender). The ways in which bodies are gendered (firmness, dryness, vigour) in Artemidorus’ body-symbolism are discussed in detail, and the extraordinary over-signification of the male penis and under-signification of the female vagina in Artemidorus’ classificatory system are highlighted. The chapter concludes with an extended discussion of the presentation of physical and mental disability in the Oneirocritica.\u0000","PeriodicalId":113664,"journal":{"name":"An Ancient Dream Manual","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128875874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sexuality and Gender","authors":"P. Thonemann","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198843825.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198843825.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"The Oneirocritica is a remarkably rich source of evidence for Graeco-Roman ideas about gender relations and male and female sexuality. For Artemidorus, as Foucault recognized, the key to the symbolic meaning of a sex-act in a dream is not the biological sex of the participants, but their relative social status. This chapter deals with Artemidorus’ classification of sex-dreams (varieties of sexual intercourse which are considered to be ‘in accordance with’ or ‘contrary to’ law and/or nature), as well as the symbolic significance of different sexual acts and positions; it is argued that Artemidorus’ sexual ethics are more strongly heteronormative than they have often been considered in previous scholarship. This chapter also explores the marginalization of women’s dreams (and female sexuality) in the Oneirocritica, as well as Artemidorus’ implicit and explicit assumptions about gender relations and female social and sexual roles.","PeriodicalId":113664,"journal":{"name":"An Ancient Dream Manual","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130166415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Natural World","authors":"P. Thonemann","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198843825.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198843825.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Much of the second book of the Oneirocritica is dedicated to an enormous panorama of the natural world, beginning with weather-signs (particularly fire and thunderbolts), before turning to a long and fabulously rich account of the animal kingdom and the natural world more generally (the sea, farming and plants, rivers and land), articulated around the human exploitation of that world (hunting, fishing, farming). This chapter describes Artemidorus’ conception of non-human nature and its associated symbolism, with a particular emphasis on his utilitarian assumptions concerning both animals and plants. His taxonomy of animals is explored in detail, with a focus on degrees of anthropomorphism (with birds at one end of the spectrum, fish at the other.)","PeriodicalId":113664,"journal":{"name":"An Ancient Dream Manual","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123857448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cities of Dreams","authors":"P. Thonemann","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198843825.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198843825.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"The civic life of Greek poleis in the eastern Roman empire is very prominent in the Oneirocritica (particularly in Book 4). This chapter will discuss the absence of the Classical Greek polis from Artemidorus’ conception of the Greek city (an aspect in which he differs profoundly from other Greek authors of his day), and the rich and detailed picture that he gives us of Greek civic institutions and hierarchies in the Severan period. The role of civic elites and the social expectations placed upon them is a major theme of the chapter, as is the degree to which the Oneirocritica reflects the distinctive social and political conditions of his two native cities, Ephesus and Daldis.","PeriodicalId":113664,"journal":{"name":"An Ancient Dream Manual","volume":"145 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123058692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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