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Telling the Truth of Dreams

Feb 28
2025
2:00pm - 4:00pm
On Campus Event - Old Library, 110
Telling the Truth of Dreams: Between Mysticism and Medicine in the Ancient and Medieval Culture

On Friday, Feb. 28, the Department of Transnational Italian Studies invites you to Tommaso Ghezzani's presentation, "Telling the Truth of Dreams: Between Mysticism and Medicine in the Ancient and Medieval Culture."

The aim of this presentation is to investigate the religious sources and, above all, the medico-physiological foundations concerning dreams and imagination that underpin medieval culture. The study of dreams, explored through a mystical lens in multiple Greek religious traditions, such as Orphism, is also a subject addressed by numerous physiologists and physicians between the 5th and 4th Centuries b. C. (Heraclitus, Democritus, Hippocrates, etc.). 

The presentation takes place in Old Library 110 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Audience: BMC Community
Type(s): Lecture
Contact:
Roberta Ricci

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