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Dream and Scipio
In his commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio, Macrobius described the Earth as a globe of insignificant size in comparison to the remainder of the cosmos.
Further examples of such medieval diagrams can be found in medieval manuscripts of the Dream of Scipio.
Gersonides is an important character in the novel The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears, where he is depicted as the mentor of the protagonist Olivier de Noyen, a non-Jewish poet and intellectual.
* Iain Pears's book The Dream of Scipio is set in Provence, with the lives of three people at various historical periods interweaving with each other.
He is primarily known for his writings, which include the Saturnalia, a compendium of ancient Roman religious and antiquarian lore, the Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis (" Commentary on the Dream of Scipio "), which was an important source for Platonism in the Latin West during the Middle Ages, and De differentiis et societatibus graeci latinique verbi (" On the differences and similarities of the Greek and Latin verb ") which is now lost.
From an 1100 copy of Macrobius ' Dream of Scipio.
Macrobius is also the author of a commentary in two books on the Dream of Scipio narrated by Cicero at the end of his Republic.
Cicero's Dream of Scipio described the Earth as a globe of insignificant size in comparison to the remainder of the cosmos.
), Macrobius: Commentary on the Dream of Scipio.
* Dream of Scipio, story by Cicero
* The Dream of Scipio ( book ), book by Iain Pears
* Cicero, Dream of Scipio
* Macrobius, Somnium Scipionis ( Dream of Scipio ) 1556
The Dream of Scipio ( Latin, Somnium Scipionis ), written by Cicero, is the sixth book of De re publica, and describes a fictional dream vision of the Roman general Scipio Aemilianus, set two years before he commanded at the destruction of Carthage in 146 BCE.
De re publica ( On the Republic ) is a treatise on the history, laws, and polity of the Roman republic ; the Dream of Scipio appears in the sixth book of this partly lost work.
Iain Pears wrote a historical novel called " The Dream of Scipio " which refers to Cicero's work in various direct and indirect ways.
* The Dream of Scipio ( in English )
In Cicero's Dream of Scipio, the elder Scipio Africanus describes an ascent through the celestial spheres, compared to which the Earth and the Roman Empire dwindle into insignificance.
A commentary on the Dream of Scipio by the late Roman writer Macrobius, which included a discussion of the various schools of thought on the order of the spheres, did much to spread the idea of the celestial spheres through the Early Middle Ages.
The phenomenon of apparitional experience is therefore related, as is made explicit in Cicero's Dream of Scipio.
Because most surviving Zonal maps are found illustrating Macrobius ' Commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio ( an excerpt of Cicero's De Re Publica ), this type of map is sometimes called " Macrobian ".
Chauntecleer recounts stories of prophets who foresaw their deaths, dreams that came true, and dreams that were more profound ( for instance, Cicero's account of the Dream of Scipio ).

Dream and Cicero
Most of these have been recorded by Plutarch ( Lives of Romulus, Numa Pompilius and Camillus ), Florus ( Book I, I ), Cicero ( The Republic VI, 22: Scipio's Dream ), Dio ( Dion ) Cassius and Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( L. 2 ).
* Cicero: On Friendship and The Dream of Scipio by J. Powell ( 1990 ) Aris & Phillips Ltd: Wiltshire

Dream and describes
In The Dream Frontier, Mark Blechner describes musical metaphors, in which a piece of music can " map " to the personality and emotional life of a person.
Tarnow's theory is a reworking of Freud's theory of dreams in which Freud's unconscious is replaced with the long-term memory system and Freud's " Dream Work " describes the structure of long-term memory.
In the garden, Destiny foreshadows “ the lives ” of the Endless, describes Dream ’ s future meeting with his ex-lover, and reminds Dream of his need of an Oracle.
At the end of Brief Lives, Destruction describes a situation in which Death told him that everybody knows everything and they just pretend they don't, but neither he nor Dream really understand or believe this.
John Keats ' poem The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream describes a vision of Moneta.
Xu was also a playwright, authoring the following four plays: The Heroine Mulan Goes to War in Her Father's Place ( 雌木蘭 Ci Mulan ): describes Hua Mulan, A Female Degree Holder ( 女狀元 Nüzhuangyuan ): The Adventures of the Intelligent Huang Chongjia ( 黃崇嘏 ), The History of the Mad Drum ( 狂鼓史 Kuanggu Shi ): crimes of Cao Cao, and A Zen Master's Dream of the Land of Green Jade ( 翠鄉夢 Cuixiang Meng ): a Buddhist story.
Vega received quite a few unsolicited mixes of her ( a cappella ) song, and eventually issued an entire CD of " Tom's Diner " mixes, one notable example being " Jeannie's Diner ", in which a resung verse based on Vega's composition describes the premise of the situation comedy " I Dream of Jeannie ".
In 2006 he announced his solo debut, Bienvenido al sueño ( Welcome To The Dream ), it consists of electronic instruments with Buddhist influences and Prehispanic Mexican which he describes as " música protónica por no limitarlo o estereotiparlo " ( pre-tonic music so as not to limit or stereotype it ).
Niemcewicz's 1817 pamphlet Rok 3333 czyli sen niesłychany ( The Year 3333, or an Incredible Dream ), first published posthumously in 1858, describes a Poland transformed into a sinister Judeo-Polonia.
The medieval Welsh tale The Dream of Rhonabwy from the 12th or 13th century vividly describes the interior of " an old pitch black hall ":
A song, Demasduit Dream, recorded by Newfoundland band Great Big Sea, describes this incident.
In 2008, documentary filmmaker, Joanne Caputo, winner of the PBS Independent Lens Audience Award for her 2005 “ On A Roll: Family, Disability and the American Dream ,” self-published “ Margaret Garner: Diversity and Depth of Love .” The non-fiction two-book manuscript includes a memoir, in which Caputo describes her paranormal experiences with Margaret Garner and a claim of being Garner ’ s reincarnated murdered daughter.
The so-called " aria della piovra " (" Octopus aria "), " Un dì, ero piccina ", where Iris describes a screen she had seen in a Buddhist temple when she was a child, depicting an octopus coiling with its tentacles around a young woman, may have been inspired by the print " The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife " ( 1814 ) by the Japanese artist Hokusai.

Dream and what
Filomena narrates this tale, which many see as revealing Boccaccio's opinion of what makes a good or bad storyteller, just as portions of Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream contain Shakespeare's opinion of what makes a good or bad actor.
The four lovers are then made to believe that they were dreaming what took place in the forest ( hence the play's title A Midsummer Night's Dream ).
In 1997, while accepting MTV Video Music Award for " Best New Artist " for her song Sleep to Dream, Apple said: " This world is bullshit, and you shouldn't model your life on what we think is cool, and what we're wearing and what we're saying.
The Sandman Special # 1 implies that Morpheus is one and the same as the Greek deity of that name ( in DC comics continuity, another version of this god, clearly not Dream, appears in George Pérez's Wonder Woman # 11 ( December 1987 ) — what relation this figure, an old man dressed in purple vaguely resembling Agatha Harkness, has to this aspect of Dream is unclear ).
After introducing his lover to Desire when they first arrive, and leaving the two alone, Killalla asked what Desire had done for Dream to make him so affectionate, but Desire indicated that it hadn't done anything at all.
When Dream discovered this at the end of The Doll's House, he openly threatened Desire with what would happen should Desire interfere in Dream's life again, and there was an uneasy truce between the two afterwards.
Much later, after many millennia of the Dream time, the animals missed Yhi and she decided to return to ask what was wrong.
On May 1, 1916, Frederick Stock and the orchestra recorded the Wedding March from Felix Mendelssohn's music to A Midsummer Night's Dream for what was then known as the Columbia Graphophone Company.
In historiography, what is now called speculative fiction has previously been termed " historical invention ", " historical fiction ", and similar names and is extensively noted in literary criticism of the works of William Shakespeare as when he co-locates Athenian Duke Theseus and Amazonian Queen Hippolyta, English fairy Puck, and Roman god Cupid across time and space in the Fairyland of its Merovingian Germanic sovereign Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream ; in mythography it has been termed " mythopoesis " or mythopoeia, " fictional speculation ", the creative design and generation of lore, regarding such works as J. R. R.
In addition to Hamlet, which he played over 500 times in six productions, he gave what some consider definitive performances in The Tempest ( as Prospero ) in four productions ( and in the 1991 film Prospero's Books ), as well as in other roles-Richard II in three productions, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing which he first played in 1930 and revived throughout the 1950s, Macbeth and Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream twice, Romeo three times, and King Lear four times ( as well as taking on the part for a final time in a radio broadcast at the age of 90 ).
Ogletree joined Simple Minds for rehearsals in a large converted barn in Perthshire, Scotland, where he wrote and played the drum parts for the songs that were to become what is considered the band's watershed album, New Gold Dream ( 81 – 82 – 83 – 84 ).
Bunyan presents a decrepit and harmless giant to confront Christian at the end of the Valley of the Shadow of Death that is explicitly named " Pope ": Now I saw in my Dream, that at the end of this Valley lay blood, bones, ashes, and mangled bodies of men, even of Pilgrims that had gone this way formerly: And while I was musing what should be the reason, I espied a little before me a Cave, where two Giants, Pope and Pagan, dwelt in old times, by whose Power and Tyranny the Men whose bones, blood ashes, & c. lay there, were cruelly put to death.
Asked by Prog-Sphere. com what is his favorite Dream Theater song to play live, James says " The favorite song for me is Scarred, I love performing that live.
One of dredg's main influences on the album, El Cielo, was a painting by Salvador Dalí entitled Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bumblebee around a Pomegranate One Second Before Awakening, which is also what the acronym in the first song on the album, " Brushstroke: dcbtfoabaaposba ", stands for.
When asked about this, Kip Winger once stated: " Our band was known to musicians, and a lot of musicians showed up to see me play — watching trying to figure out how I'm playing — we were like the ' hair band ' of Dream Theater ... That is why it's the great irony that we ended up on that geeky guy's shirt on Beavis & Butt-head, because Metallica couldn't play what we play, they couldn't do it, they literally — technically couldn't do it.
In music, Conrad was an early ( though not original ) member of the Theatre of Eternal Music, nicknamed The Dream Syndicate, which included John Cale, Angus MacLise, La Monte Young, and Marian Zazeela, and utilized just intonation and sustained sound ( drones ) to produce what the group called " dream music " ( and is now called drone music ).
As far as we can tell from what has been preserved, the art of the scop was directed mostly towards epic poetry ; the surviving verse in Old English consists of the epic Beowulf, religious verse in epic formats such as the Dream of the Rood, heroic lays of battle, and stern meditations on mortality and the transience of earthly glory.
Dream was not sure what to do with the key to Hell, and after having negotiated with many interested parties, he gave it to the angels Remiel and Duma, who ruled Hell on behalf of the Presence until the Lucifer spinoff series saw possession of the key shift hands once again.
These had green labels, and the catalogue included some ambitious items, such as an abridged version ( 1925 ) of Edward Elgar's oratorio The Dream of Gerontius and, from Novello, what has been reported as the first recording of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 ( arranged for piano by Carl Tausig ) and a complete recording of Mendelssohn's First Piano Concerto, her sole recording of a work extending over more than two record sides.
Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner, like Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?, on which it is loosely based, uses the story of a hunt for escaped military androids to explore the idea what it means to be human.

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