1. Journal of Ancient History 2 (289)
  2. The Poetics of Dreams in the \\ «Martyrdom of Montanus, Lucius and Flavianus» (second half of the 3rd century AD).

The Poetics of Dreams in the \\ «Martyrdom of Montanus, Lucius and Flavianus» (second half of the 3rd century AD).

Kryukova Anna N.

The article deals with the poetics of dreams in the «Martyrdom of Montanus, Lucius and Flavianus» (second half of the 3rd century AD). The author considers depicting dreams as a special literary device and tries to determine its place in the composition and its functions, as well as the means used by the hagiographer to describe the dreams of martyrs.

Keywords: early Christian literature, hagiography, martyrdom, dreams in literature.
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