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Sex, Tyranny, and Hippias’ Incest Dream (Herodotus 6.107)
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In the second century A.D., Artemidoros collected a fair range of material from the dreams which his clients brought him for interpretation: dreams with incest shown directly, not deduced by psychoanalytical decoding.Abstract:
I N ONE OF SIGMUND FREUD'S favorite classical quotations, Iokaste tells Oidipous that \"many mortals in dreams have slept with their mothers. ttl Perhaps she was right. Much later, in the second century A.D., Artemidoros collected a fair range of material from the dreams which his clients brought him for interpretation: dreams with incest shown directly, not deduced by psychoanalytical decoding.2 The meanings, thought Artemidoros, varied widely according to the dreamer's circumstances and the details of the dream-for example, whether the dreamer's mother was alive or dead at the time of the dream, and what position they used. Such dreams might bode well or ill, and they are hardly ever about sex. Symbolic interpretation does much to take the shock out of them. As White suggests, \"since the forbidden impulse was not disguisedread more
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Herodotus on Kings and Tyrants: Objective Historiography or Conventional Portraiture?
TL;DR: Waters as mentioned in this paper explored the extent to which Herodotus's treatment of kings and tyrants follows a pattern and draws on a store of conventional or stock characteristics and found that no single theme greatly influenced Herodotos's selection or arrangement of facts; rather, he found "a completely objective stance in Herodotoss treatment of tyrants and Kings of Persia."
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Herodotus and Images of Tyranny: The Tyrants of Corinth
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