The genre of literary dream is known from antiquity. Already in the ancient world literary dreams not only carried moral lessons, but also proposed a contemporary image of universe. A study of this genre is important for understanding the interpretation and propagation of cosmological ideas in antiquity and also in the early modern literary dreams of Johannes Kepler, Libert Froidmont, Athanasius Kircher, and others. Many of them reflected ancient sources as well as their reasons for choosing dream as a genre to explain cosmological ideas and describe their radically new image of the universe.
dream; literary voyages to the universe; early modern; epistemic genre; Athanasius Kircher
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