Dreams in Evagrius Ponticus’ life and teaching

Rubén Peretó Rivas

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Byzantine Studies and History Medieval Literature and History Augustinian Studies and Theology

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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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1999Dreams and Dream Narratives in the Biblical World 2010Willing to Know God: Dreamers and Visionaries in the Later Middle Ages 1995Prophetic Figures in Late Second Temple Jewish Palestine: The Evidence from Josephus 2013Evagrius and Gregory Nazianzen or Nyssen? Cappadocian (and Origenian) Influence on Evagrius

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