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Marcus Aurelius and the Stoic Emperor's Dream Journal
We all know Marcus Aurelius wrote the Meditations — but where did the notebook come from? And what did Romans actually think about recording dreams? In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the ancient practice of dream incubation, the god Asclepius, and the possibility that Marcus's private reflections were influenced by a tradition of oneirography. They trace the journey from the Greek healing sanctuaries of Epidaurus to the emperor's tent on the Danube frontier, and ask whether the Meditations themselves were a kind of dream journal — a nightly exercise in rational…
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