A comprehensive and heavily annotated study of the dreams and visions of emperors throughout Antiquity. Weber initially examines the terminology of divination, its tradition in the Near East and Christendom and examples of dreams and visions from Greek and Roman inscriptions and papyri. The majority of the book presents the dreams and visions of Rome's rulers and emperors, arranged thematically, which marked each stage of their private and public lives. The vision texts are published in German with the original Greek or Latin text consigned to the footnotes.