Behind Closed Eyes : Dreams and Nightmares in Ancient Egypt

Name: Behind Closed Eyes
Brand: Classical Press of Wales
SKU: 9780954384500
Price: 7600 KES
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ISBN: 9780954384500

by Kasia Spazkowska

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0954384504

ISBN-13 9780954384500

Publisher Classical Press of Wales

Imprint Classical Press of Wales

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 25th, 2003

Print length 237 Pages

Weight 658 grams

Product Classification: General & world history African history Psychology: states of consciousness Sleep & dreams General and world history African history Dreams & their interpretation Dreams and their interpretation

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This book presents a comprehensive study of dreams as they were perceived and interpreted by the Egyptians in the third and second millennia BC, from the Old Kingdom to the New Kingdom.

Dreams and nightmares have long puzzled and fascinated, yet this is the first book to explore such visions in the Ancient Egyptian world. The author traces the evidence from the first half of Egypt''s long history, the Old Kingdom through the New Kingdom, a time-span of over 1,000 years. The book is arranged thematically, with chapters devoted to the literary use of dreams, to the political use of divine visions, to the technology used to ward away terrorizing nightmares. It also explores the Ramesside Dream Book, a unique text that reveals the desires and anxieties that could inspire an Egyptian''s dreams, with images of sex and power, of gods and the dead. All the relevant passages are conveniently translated in an appendix.

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