Were some dreams in ancient Roman poetry the precursor to film?

In Virgil's "Aeneid," the fallen Trojan prince Hector appears to Aeneas and advises him to flee Troy with his family. In perhaps Shakespeare's most well-known play, the ghost of Hamlet's father appears to Prince Hamlet to tell him his brother, Claudius, murdered him. And in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge receives a dreamlike visit from the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley.

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