Word: artemidorus
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...addition to the utter vagueness of this passage, two major problems with Houge's interpretation present themselves. First, who is the "bearer of a petition?" No doubt one would expect a character similar to the intrepid Artemidorus in Julius Caesar, who stands outside the Senate waiting to give the doomed Caesar a written warning of his demise. But whom does Hogue submit? "Jeane Dixon, one of the foremost prophets of modern times" who claims to have predicted the Kennedy assassination. A little shaky...
Despite this disproportion, The Oxford Book of Dreams is an irresistible sampler. Reading Artemidorus (circa A.D. 150) is like eavesdropping in the imperial marketplace: "Someone dreamt that he had an iron penis. He fathered a son who killed him. For iron is consumed by the rust that it produces from itself." Freud's claim that the ancient Greeks had sensed what he had systematized is borne out by eerie resonances. In Aeschylus' drama, Orestes describes a snake "as though human ... its gaping mouth clutching the breast that once fed me ... it then mingled the sweet milk with curds...
...umbrella; he carries a businessman's attache case, which when opened turns out to contain knives for the murder (one recalls the old-time gangsters who used to conceal machine guns inside violin cases). The conspirators wear three-piece business suits. The conspiracy is hatched in a cocktail lounge; Artemidorus, the rhetoric teacher, who will try to warn Caesar of the plot, has become a journalist who eavesdrops and takes notes in a reporter's pad. The Soothsayer is a blind man hawking copies of an astrology magazine. Mark Antony, on his first appearance, wears a jogging suit and running...
...with great care, although the chief changes in the stage arrangements will be property changes. Roman vexilla and standards will be used, and Caesar's advent will be heralded by the approach of the ancient singe bearing upon them the SPQR. Great care has been expended upon the costumes. Artemidorus, the sophist, and the soothsayer will be dressed in a different manner from that of the hackneyed public stage-costumes. The dress of the citizens will conform as closely as possible to the time of the establishment of the Roman empire, and many scenes of the play promise to appear...
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