University of Rome Tor Vergata
Research Centre «Forms of Knowledge in the Ancient World»»

in collaboration with

Römisches Institut der Görres-Gesellschaft

Landscape Between Night and Dawn: Sleep and Dream in Ancient Rome

Rome, December 19-20, 2014

organized by Fabio Stok and Christine Walde

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Program

Friday, December 19, 2014

Römisches Institut der Görres-Gesellschaft
Campo Santo Teutonico
Vatican City

14,00
Christine Walde (Mainz)
Schlafen im antiken Rom. Annäherungen an ein schwieriges Phänomen

14,45
Carlo Santini (Perugia)
Sonno e sogno in Varrone Menippeo e nell′ultima oratoria di Cicerone

15,30
break

16,00
Christian Stoffel (Mainz)
Kein Kommentar zur Nacht? Funktion und Deutung von Nachtszenen im Corpus Caesarianum

16,45
Paolo Esposito (Salerno)
Tra epitaffio e sogno: Dal Marcello di Properzio al Pompeio di Lucano

17,30
Gideon Nisbet (Birmingham)
Martial′s Economy of Sleep

18,15
Giancarlo Abbamonte (Naples)
Sonno e insonnia di un poeta: Stat. Silv. 5, 4

Saturday, December 20, 2014

University of Rome Tor Vergata
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici (1 Columbia st.)
Building B, 3rd floor, conference room «Roberto Pretagostini»

9,00
Walter Cavini, (Bologna)
Lucrezio e l’analisi epicurea dei sogni

9,45
Luciano Landolfi (Palermo)
Tagesreste e simulacra: sogni e sogni erotici in Lucrezio

10,30
break

11,00
Sabrina Grimaudo (Palermo)
Tra interpretazione e polemica scientifica. Visione onirica e sogno nel corpus galenico

11,45
Fabio Stok (Rome)
Sonno e disturbi del sonno della medicina tardoantica

12,45
Filippo Carlà (Exeter)
Sacrifici e altre pratiche religiose nella notte romana

13,30
Federica Ciccolella (Texas University/Rome)
“Sognando il Maïuma”: realtà e immaginazione negli scritti di Procopio di Gaza

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Ancient culture reflected in various ways on dream and its meaning, and gave a number of explanations, exploring with attention and curiosity even the boundaries between dream and sleep and the influence on dreams of the forms and the phases of sleep.

This exploration regarded the soul and the world of dreams, as well as the body and the somatic and socio-cultural environment of the man sleeping.

The conference aims at analyzing this issue with an interdisciplinary approach, involving the Roman literature of late republican and imperial age, but also the medical texts and the philosophical, psychological, social, and religious issues.

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For further information:

Christine Walde
waldec@uni-mainz.de

Fabio Stok
fabio.stok@uniroma2.it