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Dreams in Evagrius Ponticus’ life and teaching

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Rivas R. P.

Vox Patrum

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2017

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vol. 67

523-542

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W kwestii snów jest niewielu autorów starożytnych, którzy skupialiby na sobie większą uwagę niż Ewagriusz z Pontu. Dla niego, wizje i sny nie są narzędziem służącym do przepowiadania przyszłości lub utrzymywania kontaktu ze zmarłymi. Są one przede wszystkim środkiem umożliwiającym poznanie samego siebie i stanu swego życia duchowego. Autor artykułu, po szerszym nakreśleniu teorii dotyczących snów u najbardziej znaczących pisarzy tego okresu, omawia te wypowiedzi z korpusu dzieł Ewagriusza, które dotyczą wizji i snów, opisując ich mechanizmy jako złożony proces między namiętnościami, pamięcią i oddziaływaniem demonów.

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There are few late antiquity authors who pay more attention than Evagrius to dreams. For him, visions and dreams are not a way to prophesy the future or to keep in contact with the dead. They are basically a way to know oneself and the state of one’s own spiritual life. After contextualizing the theories on dreams in the most significant authors of that period, I discuss the place that visions and dreams occupied in the Evagrian corpus, describing their mechanisms as a complex operation between passions, memory and the influence of demons.

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Setne Chamvaset – nezvedený syn faraona Vesermaatrea?

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Landgráfová R., Míčková D.

Pražské egyptologické studie (Prague Egyptological Studies)

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2018

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issue 20

71-78

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The study presents a new look at the Demotic story of Setne I. According to traditional interpretations, Setne is a scholar searching for the magical scroll containing the wisdom of Thoth, who has to pass through various dangers along his journey and, in the end, is forced to return the book back to the tomb where he found it. The mysterious beauty Tabubu, whom he encounters after carrying the scroll out of the tomb of the scholar Naneferkaptah, is usually portrayed as a force of chaos, as one of the dangerous women described in coeval wisdom literature as creatures any wise man should avoid. However, a careful analysis of the text reveals Setne to be no scholar, his motivation as far from a pure search for knowledge, and his desires being of a carnal rather than spiritual nature. Moreover, a large part of the narrative appears to play out in the spiritual realm, which Setne reaches upon voluntary or involuntary intoxication. Finally, the story also shows that the memory of the real Setne Khamwaset permeated the literary tradition of the time, as the literary Setne, too, is portrayed as an ancient “archaeologist” who roams and restores tombs from long lost times.

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Duchowa przemiana? O fikcji literackiej, snach i religii w „Sarashina nikki”

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Bednarczyk A.

Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo

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2013

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issue 3(6) cz.2

243-264

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Sarashina nikki (Sarashina diary) is an example of nikki bungaku (memoirs/diaries) written by Sugawara no Takasue’s daughter (the real name of the author is unknown) in the Heian period (8th-12th century). Her work stands out for the description of her travels and pilgrimages, reading passion and dreams. The memoirs start with her childhood days. She remembers her joy at listening to tales and praying to the Yakushi Buddha to be able to read all of them. Then she reports her long (lasting three months) travel back to the capital with her father, an assistant governor of Kazusa. Afterwards she describes her joy at being presented with a complete text of the Genji monogatari (Tale of Genji), and her dreams to live the life described in the novel. When her life does not turn out the way she wanted, she blames it on her addiction to tales, which made her live in a fantasy world, neglecting her faith. Aside from the whirl of romance stories, the enormous number of dreams the author had had play an important role in Sarashina nikki. The world she lives in is, quite literally, a world of dreams and fiction. The author, however, is aware of this and the diary is meant to be a tale of religious conversion or spiritual metamorphosis. She eventually learns the disparity between reality and dreams and, through this, learns the truths about Buddhism. The diary, then, is meant to be a warning against the perils and temptations of the world. In the present paper, through discussion of the meaning of dreams and the role of fictional stories in life of the diary’s protagonist, the author aims to show, how these two factors have influenced her religious awakening, and, in consequence, her spiritual metamorphosis.

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Kilka uwag na temat Commentarii in Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis Makrobiusza Ambrosiusza Teodozjusza

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Kowalewska M.

Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Sklodowska, sectio I – Philosophia-Sociologia

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2017

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vol. 42

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issue 2

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The article presents several selected threads appearing in the work of Macrobius entitled Commentarii in Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis. This work, despite the fact that it does not have the character of an original work, but on the contrary – it has a compilatory character, has become one of the important sources that penetrated the ideas of ancient philosophy until the Middle Ages. Among the wealth of ideas contained in this work, issues related to the understanding of philosophy, the relation of philosophy and mythology, the topos of the “golden chain of Homer’s existence” and the classification of dreams were selected.

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W artykule przedstawiono kilka wybranych wątków występujących w dziele Makrobiusza zatytułowanym Commentarii in Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis. Dziełko to, mimo że nie posiada charakteru oryginalnego utworu, lecz wręcz przeciwnie – ma charakter kompilatorski, stało się jednym z ważnych źródeł, którymi do średniowiecza przenikały idee filozofii starożytnej. Spośrod bogactwa idei zawartych w omawianym utworze wybrano zagadnienia związane z rozumieniem filozofii, relacją filozofii i mitologii, toposem „złotego łańcucha bytów Homera” oraz klasyfikacją snów.

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Dreams in Evagrius Ponticus’ life and teaching

Setne Chamvaset – nezvedený syn faraona Vesermaatrea?

Duchowa przemiana? O fikcji literackiej, snach i religii w „Sarashina nikki”

Kilka uwag na temat Commentarii in Ciceronis Somnium Scipionis Makrobiusza Ambrosiusza Teodozjusza