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	Dream of Scipio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Dream of Scipio (Latin, Somnium Scipionis) is a dream-vision by the Roman philosopher Cicero in which Scipio Aemilianus Africanus meets his grandfather by adoption, Scipio Africanus Major (236 BC - 184 BC), hero of the Second Punic War against Hannibal's Carthage.
		The Dream of Scipio forms a digression within the sixth book of Cicero's De re publica, (English: On the Republic), his treatise on the laws and polity of the Roman republic.
		The Dream of Scipio was known to the early Christian era philosopher Boethius.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dream_of_Scipio (268 words)

	Notes on the The Dream of Scipio
		Macrobius claims that "the purpose of the dream is to teach us that the souls of those who serve the state well are returned to the heavens after death and enjoy everlasting blessedness" (92).
		the enigmatic dream, considered by macrobius to be useful in divination, consists of strange figures impossible to understand without the intervention of an interpreter of dreams.
		Macrobius' commentary on Scipio's dream also includes a description of the various types of fiction, and an explanation of which are appropriate for philosophical discussions such as Cicero's Republic.
	www.mathcs.duq.edu /~racicot/phd/notes/scipio.html (686 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears
		ReadingGroupGuides.com - The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears
		In The Dream of Scipio, "Pears' finest book yet" (Boston Globe), the acclaimed author of An Instance of the Fingerpost intertwines three intellectual mysteries, three intellectual mysteries, three love stories-and three of the darkest moments in human history.
		In The Dream of Scipio, the stories of Manilus Hippomanes, Olivier de Noyen, and Julien Barneuve are linked through time by a philosophical text which suggests that "man is responsible for his own salvation, but through knowledge, not through deeds or faith." (p.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/dream_of_scipio1.asp (785 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Dream of Scipio: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Dream of Scipio is a novel of great ambition that simultaneously engages the emotional and intellectual capacities of the reader while always remaining compulsively readable.
		The title of the book is "The Dream of Scipio" which I originally thought was a reference back to the "Somnium Scipionis" by Cicero.
		The fact is though that "The Dream of Scipio" - a version written by Manlius, a main character, promises to be at the heart of the novel, and yet it really isn't.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0099284588 (1295 words)

	JS Online: Novel of ideas has emotional punch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the fifth century, there is Manlius Hippomanes, a secular man of letters who accepts a post as bishop because he believes it will allow his people to temporarily stave off the advance of barbarians.
		In the 12th century, there is Olivier de Noyen, a handsome young poet who discovers a copy of Hippomanes' manuscript titled "The Dream of Scipio," a philosophical treatise on the nature of pacifism.
		One of the most powerful themes of "Scipio" is that facts seem to come together after it's too late - after the damage has been done, after the chance to learn from our mistakes is lost.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/books/reviews/sep02/71350.asp (583 words)

	Amazon.ca: Dream of Scipio: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Like his elegant debut, An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears's The Dream of Scipio is an inventive, gloriously detailed historical novel told from multiple viewpoints.
		At the heart of The Dream of Scipio and, one suspects, at the heart of its author, is the conflict between a classical ideal of learning and the contemplation of beauty, and the noisy, uncivilized, democratizing impulses of the Christian era.
		The Dream of Scipio is an extremely well done and beautiful novel -- a challenging read involving three different characters at three different points in history.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1573229865 (1364 words)

	Books \| An essay in civic virtue
		The Dream of Scipio is another instance of the same.
		Inspired by her, he writes an essay, "The Dream of Scipio", about "love and friendship and the connection between those and the life of the soul and the exercise of virtue".
		Olivier's is a tale of doomed love: he is supposed to have been killed by the jealous husband of a noblewoman.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4478648-110738,00.html (507 words)

	Catholic New Times: Author examines evil do-gooders
		Is it true to say, "The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst evil of all?" These are some of the moral questions posed in The Dream of Scipio.
		Each has discovered a version of The Dream of Scipio, a treatise on philosophy originally written by Cicero, that touches on the political life.
		The establishment of the various historical situations, and the delineation of a full identity and personal context for the three protagonists, are the strengths of The Dream of Scipio, but also its weakness.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0MKY/is_5_27/ai_n6066036 (594 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: The Dream of Scipio
		The author of 1998's best-selling literary thriller An Instance of the Fingerpost, Pears has returned with The Dream of Scipio, an enormously accomplished work that stands as a learned novel of ideas, a meditation on history and a moving love story, all rolled into one volume.
		Throughout all this, the reader is placed in the cosmic crow's nest, able to trace the development of the various intellectual currents and observe how ideas are received in different historical circumstances.
		Yet Scipio is far from a dry piece of academic discourse.
	www.bookpage.com /0206bp/fiction/dream_of_scipio.html (348 words)

	Civilization in twilight \| csmonitor.com
		As a show of reverence, Manlius composes a dialogue called "The Dream of Scipio." He hopes to demonstrate to his teacher how well he understands her radical notion that the soul is a reflection of the divine, trapped in a material body, eager to reunite after a journey of understanding.
		At his death, Bishop Manlius's scandalous library is burned to protect his reputation, but "The Dream of Scipio" survives, mistaken for a Christian text.
		But before that disaster, "The Dream" is transcribed, badly, so that Olivier de Noyen, a clerical courtier in the 14th century, can make a copy of it that ends up in the Vatican library, where Julien Barneuve translates it again as the Nazis destroy Europe.
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/0530/p15s01-bogn.htm (846 words)

	The Dream of Scipio - Iain Pears
		The Dream of Scipio is in many ways an impressive novel, and yet not entirely satisfactory.
		In fact, The Dream of Scipio is a tale told thrice -- when once (with perhaps some historical embellishment borrowed from the other two) would have sufficed.
		It is specifically a Neoplatonic text, "The Dream of Scipio", that unites them -- and it is their fates to test the ideas discussed therein.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/popgb/pearsi1.htm (1531 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts
		In An Instance of the Fingerpost (1997), a murder in 1660s Oxford was seen through the eyes of four witnesses, each one reflecting and distorting the evidence of the others.
		Philosophy, in particular, becomes the stuff of a thriller, as manuscripts and doctrines are hunted down the ages, while also, in what is a typical Pears trick, coming literally to life.
		Manlius, author of the treatise The Dream of Scipio, is a neo-Platonist, much perplexed by the relationship of "Sophia", Wisdom, to the mortal.
	arts.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml;?xml=/arts/2002/05/26/bopea25.xml (516 words)

	FORWARD : Arts & Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Recent calls emanating from universities advocating academic boycotts of Israel, and the claims by some prominent intellectuals that American support for Israel somehow justified the attacks of September 11, 2001, are but the latest symptoms of this antipathy.
		Iain Pears's historical novel "The Dream of Scipio" seeks to unearth the origins of this syndrome by demonstrating the deep roots that antisemitism has in European culture and suggests that intellectuals bear much of the responsibility for its propagation.
		"The Dream of Scipio" enlarges that flicker and may thus help counter the "raucous voices" raised against Jews and the Jewish state in intellectual circles today.
	www.forward.com /issues/2003/03.02.07/arts1.html (1077 words)

	Amazon.com: The Dream of Scipio: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the next narrative time period, a manuscript of Manlius's poem, "The Dream of Scipio," a neo-Platonic allegory, is discovered by Olivier de Noyen, a Provencal poet of the 14th century.
		As his 20th-century interpreter, Julien Barneuve, discovers in investigating his violent death, de Noyen was attacked because he got caught up in a political intrigue in Avignon while trying to save his love, Rebecca, from a pogrom unleashed by the Black Death.
		"The Dream of Scipio" is confusing with a uncomfortable ending, a finish well predicted but nonethless disturbing.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/157322202X?v=glance (2168 words)

	USATODAY.com - Timeless themes haunt Pears' 'Dream' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pears ably tells three stories, set during three climactic periods: the death throes of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, the plague years in the 14th century, and World War II.
		The continual scapegoating of the Jews, from the time of the Roman emperors to Marshal Pétain in the 1940s.
		The Dream of Scipio sounds likes a frightening hit parade of all those college courses on philosophy, history and religion you might have slept through.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/2002/2002-06-11-dream-of-scipio.htm (425 words)

	Cicero's "The Dream of Scipio" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		After a royal entertainment our talk again draw out into the far night, when the old man would speak of nothing save the elder Scipio {Africanus Major): everything about him he remembered, not only his deeds, but even his sayings.
		When, therefore, we parted to retire to rest, what with the journey and our nocturnal sitting, I was more than usually tired and fell sound asleep.
		But do thou cultivate justice and piety, 0 Scipio, following in the steps of thy Grandsire and of myself, who begat thee.
	members.iinet.net.au /~quentinj/Christianity/DreamScipio.html (2014 words)

	W6: The Dream of Scipio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Imagine Major Charles Emerson Winchester III from MAS*H mocking Hawkeye's choice of a Robert Ludlum thriller and holding up an Iain Pears novel as an example of what he should have picked instead, and you've got the right idea for the kind of book Iain Pears writes.
		However, unlike certain other novels written by Nobel Laureates that try just a little too hard, The Dream Of Scipio is very readable, and may even be better than the author's previous best-known book, An Instance Of The Fingerpost.
		In Dream, the author plots out the lives of three major protagonists, whose lives intertwine even though they are separated by hundreds of years.
	w6daily.winn.com /001073.html (896 words)

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	Ancient History Sourcebook: M. Tullius Cicero: Scipio's Dream, On the Republic, Book 6
		Africanus, I thought, appeared to me in that shape, with which I was better acquainted from his picture, than from any personal knowledge of him.
		When I perceived it was he, I confess I trembled with consternation; but he addressed me, saying, Take courage, my Scipio, be not afraid, and carefully remember what I am saying to you.
		When on this Laelius made an exclamation, and the rest of the company groaned loudly, Scipio, with a gentle smile, said---I entreat you,do not wake me out of my dream, but have patience, and hear the rest.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/cicero-republic6.html (3176 words)

	Church House Bookshop The Dream of Scipio
		The Dream of Scipio, Iain Pears' first mainstream novel since An Instance of the Fingerpost, is a work of astonishing ambition that appeals equally to the head and heart.
		The story of each man is woven through the narrative, linked by the classical text that gives the book its title, and by each man's love for an extraordinary woman.
		Dense, dark, erudite and yet, like An Instance of the Fingerpost, utterly compelling, The Dream of Scipio confirms Iain Pears as one of Britain's most imaginative novelists.
	www.chbookshop.co.uk /product.asp?id=2381721 (150 words)

	The Dream of Scipio By Iain Pears
		To achieve his ends, he betrays his best friend, destroys his family and, most sadly, alienates his muse and mentor, Sophia.
		A thousand years later, a clerk at the Papal court at Avignon named Olivier de Noyen comes across a number of Roman manuscripts, including Manlius' "The Dream of Scipio."
		A poet and would-be scholar, de Noyen seeks to understand classical learning, which brings him to a rabbi named Gersonides.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20021117scipio1117fnp5.asp (594 words)

	Ex Libris Book Reviews: The Dream of Scipio - Iain Pears
		Ex Libris Book Reviews: The Dream of Scipio - Iain Pears
		Iain Pear's The Dream of Scipio follows the lives of 3 men, all men who are deeply thoughtful and philosophical, all who must face terrible decisions which try their deepest beliefs, and all men who lived in France's Provence in three different centuries of great upheaval.
		Manlius Hippomanus, a wealthy Roman aristocrat, suppresses his own Greek philosophical training to become a Bishop in the mid to late fifth century AD, the period during which the Roman empire is collapsing and Gaul is abandoned to the Visigoths.
	www.elise.com /books/el/archives/the_dream_of_scipio_iain_pears.php (409 words)

	Dream of Scipio - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter
		Dream of Scipio - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter
		This novel about idealism and its attendant disappointments begins in the fifth century B.C.E., when a scholarly writer named Manlius devoted his life to upholding the ideals of civilization against creeping barbarism--a resolve that includes armed force.
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	Amazon.com: Commentary on the Dream of Scipio by Macrobius (Records of Western Civilization): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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	Book Reviews - The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears
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	De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream by Marcus Tullius Cicero - Project Gutenberg
		De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream by Marcus Tullius Cicero - Project Gutenberg
		De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream by Marcus Tullius Cicero
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