A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities by Hubbard Thomas K

Author:Hubbard, Thomas K.
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2013-10-23T16:00:00+00:00

Guide to Further Reading

Concerning dream interpretation, scholars of the Graeco-Roman world have been discovering the interest of dreams in the past 20 years (Weber 2000, Walde 2001, Näf 2004). They have shown how dream interpretation worked as a divinatory technique acknowledged by people at all levels of society. It played a role in the political sphere as well as in everyday life. Dreams told by ancient historiography, literature and papyri make up an important part of the material, but most of it comes from Artemidorus' Dreambook, the only of is kind preserved. This treaty still aroused Freud's interest (in his Traumdeutung of 1899). Later, Foucault showed in his History of Sexuality (Foucault 1984) how important Artemidorus is for this topic. Pack 1963 provides a good edition of the Greek text. The English annotated translation by White 1975 is useful too, even if it is now replaced by Harris-McCoy 2012 (Greek text, English translation, commentary).

The ancient sources on physiognomony (i.e., the treatises and also many short passages from Greek and Latin authors) were collected and published by Foerster 1893. English translations of the main treatises can be found in Swain 2007. Elizabeth Evans has devoted many articles to this art, and her main synthesis (Evans 1969) is a general presentation of physiognomic sources and methods. Philosophical studies of these methods have been proposed by Armstrong 1958, Manetti 1993, Tsouna 1998, and Boys-Stones 2007.

Corporeal divination was long neglected by scholars as a degenerated subgroup of physiognomy (Bouché-Leclerq 1879). A new interest developed since a decade. Ancient sources on palmoscopy have partly been collected by Diels 1908 and 1909, with the addition of papyri by Hurst 2001, Papathomas 2004, and Costanza 2003. In 2009 Costanza published a new edition of the palmomantic texts (manuscripts and papyri), with introduction and Italian translation. Apart from studies on Mesopotamian divination (Bottéro 1974, Böck 2000), no synthesis yet exists. Preliminary work on Melampous' treatises (Dasen 2007–2009) will be completed with the publication of extant treatises (Dasen and Zubler forthcoming).

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