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Exploration of dream meanings in ancient Greece, highlighting interpretations from Artemidorus' Oneirocritica.
The ancient Greeks considered dreams to be significant, and often sought the aid of interpreters to understand them. They saw dreams as predictions of the future rather than insights into the unconscious. The only complete book of dreams and their interpretations to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity is the Oneirocritica of Artemidorus.
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