Artemidōrus
(
Ἀρτεμίδωρος).
1.
The Geographer, a native of Ephesus, who travelled about B.C. 100
through the countries bordering on the Mediterranean and part of the Atlantic coast, and
wrote a long work on his researches, the
Γεωγραφούμενα, in
eleven books, as well as an abstract of the same. Of both works, which were much consulted by
later geographers, we have only fragments.
2.
The Dream-interpreter, born at Ephesus at the beginning of the
second century A.D., surnamed “the Daldian,” from his mother's
birthplace, Daldis in Lydia, wrote a work on the interpretation of dreams, the
Ὀνειροκριτικά, in four books. He had gathered his materials from
the works of earlier authors and by oral inquiries during his travels in Asia, Italy, and
Greece. The book is an acute exposition of the theory of interpreting dreams, and its
practical application to examples systematically arranged according to the several stages of
human life. An appendix, counted as a fifth book, gives a collection of dreams that have come
true. For the light thrown on the mental condition of antiquity, especially in the second
century A.D., and for many items of information on religious rites and myths relating to
dreams, these writings are of value. See
Reichardt, De Artemidoro
Daldiano (1893).