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Dreams, Healing, and Medicine in Greece From Antiquity to the Present Edited by Steven M. Oberhelman Dreams, Healing, anD meDicine in greece This page has been left blank intentionally Dreams, Healing, and medicine in greece From antiquity to the Present Edited by steven m. OberHelman Texas A&M University, USA © steven m. Oberhelman 2013 all rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. steven m. Oberhelman has asserted his right under the copyright, Designs and Patents act, 1988, to be identified as the editor of this work. Published by ashgate Publishing limited ashgate Publishing company Wey court east 110 cherry street Union road suite 3-1 Farnham burlington, vt 05401-3818 surrey, gU9 7Pt Usa england www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Dreams, healing, and medicine in greece : from antiquity to the present. 1. Dreams – Therapeutic use – greece – History. 2. medicine, magic, mystic, and spagiric –greece – History. 3. Dreams – religious aspects – christianity. 4. medicine, greek and roman. i. Oberhelman, steven m. 615.8'52'09495-dc23 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dreams, healing, and medicine in greece : from antiquity to the present / edited by steven m. Oberhelman. pages cm includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-1-4094-2423-9 (hardcover) – isbn 978-1-4094-2424-6 (ebook) 1. medicine, ancient. 2. medicine – greece. 3. medical innovations – History. i. Oberhelman, steven m., editor of compilation. r135.D74 2013 610.938–dc23 2012034182 isbn 9781409424239 (hbk) isbn 9781409424246 (ebk –PDF) isbn 9781409474395 (ebk –ePUb) V Printed and bound in great britain by mPg PrintgrOUP Contents List of Illustrations vii Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgements xiii 1 Introduction: Medical Pluralism, Healing, and Dreams in Greek Culture 1 Steven M. Oberhelman Part One: antIquIty 2 The Value of Dream Diagnosis in the Medical Praxis of the Hippocratics and Galen 33 Maithe A.A. Hulskamp 3 Dream Healing in asclepieia in the Mediterranean 69 Louise Cilliers and François Pieter Retief 4 Writing the Medical Dream in the Hippocratic Corpus and at epidaurus 93 Lee T. Pearcy 5 Dream Hermeneutics in aelius aristides’ Hieroi Logoi 109 Janet Downie 6 Illness and Its Metaphors in artemidorus’ Oneirocritica: a negative List 129 Christine Walde Part tWO: ByzantIuM 7 Who Is behind Incubation Stories? The Hagiographers of Byzantine Dream-Healing Miracles 161 Ildikó Csepregi vi Dreams, Healing, and Medicine in Greece 8 Healing Dreams in early Byzantine Miracle Collections 189 Stavroula Constantinou 9 Hospital Dreams in Byzantium 199 Timothy S. Miller 10 The Stuff of Dreams: Substances and Dreams in Greek and Latin Literature 217 Jovan Bilbija 11 Magic, Infidelity, and Secret annotations in a Cypriot Manuscript of the early Fourteenth Century (Wellcome MSL 14) 251 Barbara Zipser Part tHree: tHe POSt-ByzantIne PerIOD tO tHe Current Day 12 Dreams, Dreambooks, and Post-Byzantine Practical Healing Manuals (Iatrosophia) 269 Steven M. Oberhelman 13 Fields in Dreams: anxiety, experience, and the Limits of Social Constructionism in Modern Greek Dream narratives 295 Charles Stewart 14 Dream Healing for a new age 317 Jill Dubisch Index 333 List of Illustrations Figures 1.1 Venn Diagram of Kleinman’s Medical Pluralism 2 1.2 Venn Diagram of Gentilcore’s Medical Pluralism 6 3.1 Sleeping Chamber for Incubation at Epidaurus. Photograph by S.M. Oberhelman 71 3.2 Votive Thanksofferings of Healed Body Parts at the Asclepieion at Corinth. Photograph courtesy of www.HolyLandPhotos.org 73 3.3 Coffered Ceiling of Tholos Building at Epidaurus. Photograph courtesy of www.HolyLandPhotos.org 85 11.1 Wellcome Library, MSL 14, p. 275: The second folio of the fragment. The page is partly torn and glued together with paper strips. It contains instructions on pulse diagnosis and a magical scholion written on the lower margins by a later hand. 253 11.2 Wellcome Library, MSL 14, p. 283: The main text discusses a type of fish. On the lower margins, a borderline magical text was written in invisible ink. The photograph is digitally enhanced. To the naked eye, only a few characters are visible. The general area of the scholion has a somewhat darker appearance. 254 11.3 Wellcome Library, MSL 14, p. 290: Instructions on how to make an amulet to induce childbirth. A later hand corrected the Psalm quotation in blue ink and added one more word. 259 11.4 Wellcome Library, MSL 14, p. 279: Main text on phlebotomy and three lines of annotations in invisible ink. The photograph is digitally enhanced. 263 Tables 2.1 Resemblance of Imagery in Diseases, Internal Affections, and Regimen 44 6.1 Artemidorus’ Typology of Dreams and Interpretative Grids 134 6.2 Diseases and Bodily Discomforts Mentioned in the Oneirocritica 142 This page has been left blank intentionally Notes on Contributors Jovan Bilbija is a former Ph.D. student in the Department of Greek Language and Literature at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. His main research interests include divination in the ancient Mediterranean world and oneirology in Graeco-Roman antiquity. In April 2012, he defended his dissertation entitled “The Dream in Antiquity: Aspects and Analyses.” Louise Cilliers was for many years Head of the Department of Latin and then of the Department of Classical Languages at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa, and is at present an honorary research fellow of that university. She regularly reads papers at international conferences and was for many years the editor of the national journal Acta Classica. Her main research interest is the texts of the fourth- and fifth-century AD North African medical writers, on which she has published various articles, as well as a critical edition with translation and commentary of Vindicainus’ Gynaecia. At present she is working on a critical edition of another North African medical physician, Theodorus Priscianus, and has recently contributed lemmas to various international encyclopedias. A second research project is that on ancient medicine with a colleague, François Retief, which has to date produced some 70 articles in accredited and international journals, and for which they were awarded the Stals Prize for Interdisciplinary Teamwork by the South African Academy of Arts and Science. Stavroula Constantinou is Assistant Professor of Byzantine Literature at the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Cyprus. Her research interests include literary theory and Byzantine literature, especially hagiography and fictional narrative. She has published a book on female holiness and the body (Female Corporeal Performances: Reading the Body in Byzantine Passions and Lives of Holy Women [Uppsala, 2005]), and a number of articles on genre, performance, gender, ritual, punishment, and friendship in Byzantine literature. She is currently working on a monograph on the genre of miracle collection and is co-editing a volume on court ceremonies and rituals of power in the medieval Mediterranean.
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