Tragical dreamer: Some dreams in the Roman historians

Greece and Rome

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 197-213

  Pelling, Christopher ^a  

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EID: 61349191718     PISSN: 00173835     EISSN: 14774550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gr/44.2.197     Document Type: Review

References (19)

1. and E. R. Dodds, The Greeks and the Irrational (Berkeley, etc, 1951), 102-34
2. For instance with the night-terrors of Aristomenes at Apul. Met. 1.11-14, where the uncertainty whether or not this is a dream contributes to a wider narrative play between reality and unreality. For similar uncertainties cf. E. L. Ehrlich, Der Traum im Alten Testament (Basel, 1953), 8-12
3. J. S. Hanson, ANRW ii.23.2 (1980), 1407-9; and Cox Miller (n. 1), 133, 206, writing of 'a dubious twilight'
4. S. R. F. Price, in Before Sexuality: the Construction of Erotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World (ed. D. M. Halperin, J. J. Winkler, and F. I. Zeitlin, Princeton, 1990), 365-87
5. For this approach, cf.esp. Rosemary Jackson, Fantasy: the Literature of Subversion (London, 1988: first published 1981)
6. Ceri Sullivan and Barbara White (edd.), Writing and Fantasy (London, forthcoming); and in an ancient context Cox Miller (n. 1)
7. On the relation between dreaming, day-dreaming, fantasy, and phantasy, see more fully H. Segal, Dream, Phantasy, and Art (London and New York, 1991), esp. 16-17, 30, 64-5
8. On Artemidorus' distinction and the use he makes of it see Price (n. 3), esp. 371-2; J. J. Winkler, The Constraints of Desire (New York and London, 1990), 17-44
9. G. W. Bowersock, Fiction as History: Nero to Julian (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1994), 77-98; Cox Miller (n. 1), 77-91
10. Chariton, Callirhoe 5.5.5, and Heliodorus, Aethopica 1.18.3-4; both passages are discussed by S. MacAlister, Dreams and Suicides: the Greek Novel from Antiquity to the Byzantine Empire (London, 1996), 34-6 and 78-81
11. So, rightly, S. R. West, CQ 37 (1987), 264
12. I discuss Artabanus' scepticism in my paper in Sullivan and White (n. 15), and another pair of prophetic dreams, those of Astyages at 1.107-8, in CQ 46 (1996), 68-77
13. for creative reconstruction, Pelling in Antonine Literature (ed. D. A. Russell, Oxford, 1990), 19-52
14. See M. Beard, JRS 76 (1986), 33-46
15. M. Schofield, JRS 76 (1986), 47-65
16. N. C. Denyer, PCPS 211 (1985), 1-10
17. D. S. Levene, Religion in Livy (Leiden, New York, and Köln, 1993)
18. Cf. W. Herrmann, Die Historien des Coelius Antipater (Meisenheim, 1979), 73-86, though he is inclined to make the outcome a punishment for that disobedience
19. F. R. D. Goodyear, The Annals of Tacitus ii (Cambridge, 1981) on 1.65.2. He regards the parallel at Lucan 7.26, discussed above, as crucial