ARTEMIDORUS
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(I) A geographer " of See also:Ephesus " who flourished about See also:loo B.C
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After studying at See also:Alexandria, he travelled extensively and published the results of his investigations in a large See also:work on See also:general See also:geography (Ta 'yeaypadouµeva) in eleven books, much used by See also:Strabo and others
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The See also:original work is lost, but we possess many small fragments and larger fragments of an abridgment made by See also:Marcianus of Heracleia (5th See also:century), which contains the periplus of the Euxine and accounts of See also:Bithynia and See also:Paphlagonia
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(See See also:- MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
- MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
- MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
- MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
- MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
- MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
- MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
- MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
- MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
- MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)
Muller, Geographi Graeci Minores; See also:Bunbury, See also:History of See also:Ancient Geography; Stiehle, " Der Geograph Artemidoros von Ephesos," in Philologus, xi., 1856)
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(2) A soothsayer and interpreter of dreams, who flourished in the 2nd century A.D., during the reigns of See also:Hadrian and the Antonines
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He called himself Daldianus from his See also:mother's birthplace, Daldis in See also:Lydia, in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to make its name known to the See also:world
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His 'OvEtpoKp6TnKa, or See also:- INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)
interpretation of dreams, was said to have been written by command of See also:Apollo Daldianus, whose initiated votary he was
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It is in four books, with an appendix containing a collection of prophetic dreams which had been realized
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The first three books, addressed to See also:Cassius See also:Maximus, a Phoenician rhetorician (perhaps identical with Maximus of See also:Tyre), treat of dreams and See also:divination generally; the See also:fourth—with a reply to his critics—and the appendix are dedicated to his son, also named Artemidorus and an interpreter of dreams
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Artemidorus boasts of the trouble expended on his work; he had read all the authorities on dreams, travelled extensively, and conversed with all who had studied the subject
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The work is valuable as affording an insight into ancient superstitions
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According to Suidas, Artemidorus also wrote on See also:augurs and cheiromancy, but all trace of these See also:works is lost
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