An Ancient Dream Manual

Accompanying the new translation of Artemidorus' The Interpretation of Dreams in the Oxford World's Classics series, this volume aims to provide the non-specialist reader with a readable and engaging road-map to this vast and complex text and to the theory and practice of dream-interpretation in antiquity.

Peter Thonemann teaches Greek and Roman history at Wadham College, Oxford. His published books include The Birth of Classical Europe: From Troy to Augustine (Allen Lane, 2010; with Simon Price), The Maeander Valley: A Historical Geography from Antiquity to Byzantium (CUP, 2011; winner of the Runciman Prize 2012), The Hellenistic World: Using Coins as Sources (CUP, 2015; joint winner of the Royal Numismatic Society's Lhotka Memorial Prize 2018), and The Hellenistic Age, 323-30 BC (OUP, 2016). He also writes regularly on all aspects of the ancient world for the Times Literary Supplement and the Wall Street Journal.

Frontmatter
List of Illustrations
Maps
1: The Snake and the Whale
2: Artemidorus and the Oneirocritica
3: How to Interpret a Dream
4: The Body
5: Sexuality and Gender
6: The Natural World
7: Cities of Dreams
8: Books and Literary Culture
9: The Gods
10: Festivals and Games
11: Status and Values
12: An Invisible Empire
Epilogue: Artemidorus after Antiquity
Endmatter
Further Reading
Index