CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Vujnović, Milica |
|---|---|
| Title | Dreaming About Animals: Animal Symbolism in Ancient and Medieval Greek Dreambooks |
| Summary | The recent growing interest in the study of dreaming in general has also generated attention to Greek dreambooks. However, a small number of these studies deal with particular social-historical topics because of the complex nature of the oneirocritic sources. Dreams about animals and their interpretations play a significant part in dreambooks and the ubiquitous animal symbols offer a wider scope for the analysis of gender and social aspects in the Greek oneirocritic tradition in general. This study deals with four Greek dreambooks – Aremidorus, Daniel, Achmet, and Manuel - which were written over a period of more than a millennium, between the second century and the fifteenth century. The animal motifs are extracted from the dreambooks and examined in three chapters that deal with different cultural constructs of gender, society, and emotions. The focus of the study is the question how animal symbolism was used to convey gender, social, and emotional status of the dreamer depicted in these dreambooks. |
| Supervisor | Jaritz, Gerhard |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/vujnovic_milica.pdf |
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