5. The Use of Dreams to Diagnose Patients

2026-01-19

This episode is about the way that ancient Greek intellectuals believed that dreams were sometimes reliable sources of information about what was going on in the body. I focus on On Regimen IV in particular, an anonymous medical text from the 5th century BC. Host: Doug Campbell, Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Alma College. You can subscribe to The Ancient Philosophy Podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcast, too. I have a Substack: platosfishtrap.substack.com. You can...

This episode is about the way that ancient Greek intellectuals believed that dreams were sometimes reliable sources of information about what was going on in the body. I focus on On Regimen IV in particular, an anonymous medical text from the 5th century BC.

Host: Doug Campbell, Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Alma College.

You can subscribe to The Ancient Philosophy Podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcast, too.

I have a Substack: platosfishtrap.substack.com.

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