title: [Oniric images as illusory appearances in Greek ancient thought].
abstract: This essay traces the history of 'oniric images' as phantasmata in the Greek ancient thought from Homer to Stoicism. The author will follow the indications furnished by the concept of 'oniric deceit', i.e., phantasma as illusory appearance hiding to the sleeper its own deceitful nature.
authors.affiliation: Università degli Studi di Bologna, I. walter.cavini@unibo.it
authors.forename: Walter
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Cavini
mesh_terms: D004325:Dreams; D000076145:Greece, Ancient; D049690:History, Ancient; D008091:Literature / Q000266:history; D010684:Philosophy / Q000266:history; D011037:Poetry as Topic / Q000266:history