Interpretation of Dreams and Portents (Aspects of Antiquity)
Publisher: S. Stevens Hakkert
Published: June 1976
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780888665713
Subjects: Dreams - General; Psychology; Fiction
Description: Man's efforts to explain the act of dreaming and to interpret or rationalize its visual content are almost as old as history itself. Lewis' Dreams and Portents is the first collection to bring together a representative variety of ancient world sources of dream interpretation, divination, and astrology featuring: - Dreams and Their Interpretations including: The Egyptian Dream Book, The Babylonian-Assyrian Dream Book, Ancient Greek and Roman Literary Allusions, Early Christian Interpretations, A Christian Dream Book - Divinations, Omens, and Prodigies - Astrology, or The Stars and Their Influence.