ABSTRACT
Dreams and outcomes preserved and recorded in dream-key manuals reflect to a certain degree the concerns and anxieties of the culture in which they were produced. On examining the 486 dreams and interpretations in the dreambook, one discovers a pervasive fear of plots and treachery launched by enemies because of envy or hatred. Most dreams in dream-key manuals, however, have a single interpretation, universally applicable regardless of the dreamer's physical, mental, and spiritual condition. Artemidorus polemic is framed in the context of god-sent dreams, specifically Asclepian dream cures. Blasius assertion that bodily illnesses can be portrayed in dreams images reflects Greek medical theory, such as we find in the Hippocratic Regimen 4 and Galen. Iatrosophia are mostly composed of medical recipes taken from classical, Byzantine, and post-Byzantine formal medicine and folk medicine one of which appears in Blasius text.
