Artemon of Miletus
Artemon (Ancient Greek: Ἀρτέμων) of Miletus was a relatively well-known writer of ancient Greece on the interpretation of dreams and on incubation cures.[1] He lived around the middle of the first century CE, and was said to have written during the reign of the Roman emperor Nero.[2][3]
He is most well known for his work the Oneirocritica (ὀνειροκριτικά), in twenty-two books, which is now lost.[4][5][6][7][8] This work was said to have been one of the works relied upon by the later writer Artemidorus, to compile his own book titled Oneirocritica.[3] Artemon's method of compiling the dreams for his collection was to record accounts of allegedly fulfilled dreams, often or exclusively by people sleeping in sacred spaces.[9] Artemon's work differed from that of Artemidorus in that Artemon had greater emphasis on dreams more about the recent past than the future, and the syncretic deity Serapis (a then-popular miracle cult) figured more prominently as a presence.[10][11]
He may have had a son named Neon, owing to a surviving temple inscription at Miletus, dating from the time of the emperor Caligula, describing "Neon, son of Artemon of Miletus, Friend of Gaius" that may refer to this Artemon, or to another of this name.[12]
References[edit]
- ^ Thonemann, Peter (2020). An Ancient Dream Manual: Artemidorus' The Interpretation of Dreams. Oxford University Press. p. 23. ISBN 9780192582027. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- ^ Artemidorus (2020). Thonemann, Peter (ed.). The Interpretation of Dreams. Translated by Hammond, Martin. Oxford University Press. pp. 235, 269. ISBN 9780192518866. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- ^ a b Calpino, Teresa J. (2014). Women, Work and Leadership in Acts. Mohr Siebeck. p. 187. ISBN 9783161527791. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- ^ Artemidorus, Oneirocritica 2.49
- ^ Eustathius of Thessalonica, On Homer's Iliad xvi. p. 1119
- ^ Tertullian, De anima 46
- ^ Fabius Planciades Fulgentius, Mythologies 1.13
- ^ Renberg, Gil (2017). Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World. Vol. 1. Brill Publishers. p. 342. ISBN 9789004330238. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- ^ Bromiley, Geoffrey William (1964). Theological Dictionary of the New Testament. Vol. 5. Eerdmans. p. 227. ISBN 9780802822475. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- ^ Pietropaolo, Mariapia (2020). The Grotesque in Roman Love Elegy. Cambridge University Press. p. 61. ISBN 9781108488693. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- ^ Ezquerra, Jaime Alvar (2008). Gordon, Richard Lindsay (ed.). Romanising Oriental Gods: Myth, Salvation, and Ethics in the Cults of Cybele, Isis, and Mithras. Translated by Gordon, Richard Lindsay. Brill Publishers. p. 331. ISBN 9789004132931. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- ^ Barrett, Anthony A.; Yardley, John C. (2023). The Emperor Caligula in the Ancient Sources. Oxford University Press. p. 151. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Artemon (7)". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 377.