Where dreams may come : incubation sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman world /

Where dreams may come : incubation sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman world /

Where Dreams May Come was the winner of the 2018 Charles J . Goodwin Award of Merit, awarded by the Society for Classical Studies. In this book, Gil H. Renberg examines the ancient religious phenomenon of "incubation\', the ritual of sleeping at a divinity's sanctuary in order to obta...

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Main Author: Renberg, Gil H.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016.

Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 184.
Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Online, Supplement 2017, ISBN: 9789004328099.

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Incubation (Religion) > Rome.
Incubation (Religion) > Greece.

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Call Number: BL325.I5

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material Volume I /
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  • General Introduction /
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  • Early Development of Incubation /
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  • Therapeutic Incubation in the Greek World: Asklepios /
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  • Therapeutic Incubation in the Greek World: Other Greek Cults /
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  • Divinatory Incubation in the Greek World /
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  • Sarapis and Isis /
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  • Saqqâra and the "House of Osiris-Apis" /
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  • Amenhotep and Imhotep at Deir el-Bahari and Thebes /
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  • Other Egyptian Cults /
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  • Sites Insufficiently, Dubiously or Wrongly Linked to Incubation /
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  • Other Forms of Direct Divination at Sanctuaries: Auditory Epiphanies, Induced Visions, and the Question of Voice-Oracles in Egypt /
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  • Sources for "Fertility Incubation" from Greece, Egypt and the Ancient Near East /
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  • Proxy Incubation and Priestly Incubation /
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  • The Language of Pre-Incubatory Prayer /
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  • Dietary Restrictions, Fasting and Incubation /
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  • Were the Sexes Separated During Incubation? /
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  • Illustrated Catalog of Incubation Reliefs from the Cults of Asklepios and Amphiaraos /
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  • Incubation Reliefs beyond Attica? /
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  • Problems Concerning the Early Cult and Oracle of Amphiaraos /
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  • Hypnos/Somnus and Oneiros as Evidence for Incubation at Asklepieia: A Reassessment /
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  • Libanius and Asklepios: A Case Study /
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  • The "Letter on a Stele" as Possible Evidence for Incubation in Third Millennium bce Egypt /
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  • Dream Interpreters and Incubation at Egyptian Sanctuaries /
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  • Egyptian Festivals and Divinatory Incubation /
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  • Incubation in Late Antique Christianity: A Bibliographical Survey and Analysis of the Sources /
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  • Lepers' Visions at Hammat Gader (Emmatha): A Form of Incubation in Late Antique Syria? /
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  • Bibliography /
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  • Index Locorum /
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  • Index Verborum /
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  • General Index /
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  • Concordances to Index Locorum /
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