To make it short, consider this statement from Luigi Prada’s “Dreams, Bilingualism, and Oneiromancy in Ptolemaic Egypt”: “Ancient Greeks believed in healing through dreaming, were a deity or a symbol always appeared and evoked a cure for the illness. Additionally, humans hoped that gods could answer wisely their inner dilemmas, and could help them discern more vividly and clearly the content of their incubation”.
Another way to grasp how important the oneiric world was during the Ancient Greece era is found in literature. It is remarkable that in the vast majority of Greek stories there is always a role for dreams that either predict the future or deceive the mortals, who are often tricked by the gods. We can find examples of this in Homer’s Iliad, …show more content…
To do so, Agamemnon will need a full-scale assault and the courage of all his warriors, Nestor argues. Nevertheless, after Agamemnon gathers his troops for attack, he lies and tells them that he has decided to give up the war and return to Greece. To his dismay, they eagerly run to their ships. This case is very interesting because the immortals can’t trick Agamemnon, but his own stupidity is the actual cause of his failure. Other examples of dreams that actually do happen can be find in another of Homer’s plays, the Odyssey, where Penelope dreams in, while waiting for her husband Odysseus to come back home from his trips, she is forced to withstand forty admirers who are constantly sleeping in her house and consuming Odysseus richness. In her imagination, forty ducks are brutally murdered by a vulture