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SUMMARY:Sleep in Classical\, Late and Eastern Antiquity. A Comparative Inq
 uiry
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DESCRIPTION:The workshop presents a comparative inquiry on the significanc
 e of sleep\, its cultural coding and its connection to religion in the cul
 tures of antiquity. It focuses primarily on the main Eastern and Western c
 ivilizations up to the fall of the Western Roman Empire. \nIts primary ai
 m is to complement the wide scale research done on the topic of sleep in t
 he past decade by raising questions beyond the issue of dream narratives: 
 about the complementary\, dynamic states of sleep and wake\, about the bor
 der mediating between the two. How do western and eastern ancient cultures
  of antiquity evaluate sleep and wakefulness? What kinds of social\, ethic
 al values and religious ideas are linked to them\, what kind of sleepers -
  humans or gods – are represented in the sleeping state? Is there a divi
 nity responsible for falling into a faint\, a granter\, a depository – l
 ike the Greek Hypnos? Besides the imaginations of the deities of sleeping\
 , the realm of sleep and night remains a phenomenon that is closely connec
 ted to religious beliefs. \n\nIt has been regarded as a border crossing e
 xperience\, a crossing between life and death\, human and divine\, and in 
 this state of “in-between” many extraordinary things could happen\, su
 ch as healing\, divination or – through dreams – even journey into a t
 ranscendent world. We can raise the question: What do our texts and images
  tell us about the nature of sleep\, about its connection with the complem
 entary ideas of immanence and transcendence? What significant narratives c
 an be found about sleepers in the researched cultures? How do metaphors\, 
 analogies and counterpoints define the space of sleep? In what ways are th
 e various cultural codings of sleep linked to religious experiences\, to h
 eroization\, to death\, or immortality?\n\nWorkshop's programme\n
LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/sleep-classical-late-and-eastern-antiqu
 ity-compara/
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