The religious dreamworld of Apuleius' Metamorphoses : recovering a forgotten hermeneutic /

Apuleius's 'Metamorphoses' is probably best known as the literary source for the myth of Eros and Psyche and as a primary source of information about mystery religions in the ancient world. There is another realm of the 'Metamorphoses' which has, until now, received relativ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gollnick, James Timothy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Waterloo, Ont. : Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion = Corporation canadienne des sciences religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1999.
Series:Editions SR ; v. 25.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The Dreamworld as Hermeneutical Perspective
  • Literary Dreams and the Nature of the Metamorphoses
  • Dream Interpretation in the Second Century
  • Dreams in the Metamorphoses
  • The Eros and Psyche Myth: Psychological Interpretations
  • Lucius' Religious Experience
  • Conclusion.