Chapter 3. Origins and developments

3.1. Egyptian or Mesopotamian origins? It has been suggested that Greek incubation developed as a result of influence from Egyptian dream oracles. This assumption might be supported in Herodotus: he writes on many aspects of Greek religion, among them divination, and posits that they originated in Egypt, though he does not mention incubation as such. G. Zographou, after studying the evidence for cultural influence from Egypt, arrived at the conclusion that influences may have gone from Egypt ..