A number of years ago i purchased Oneirocritica by Artemidorus, generally referred to as The Interpretation of Dreams, written in Greek in the 2nd century. The translation from Greek was done by Robert J. White, printed in 1975 as part of the Noyes Classical Studies series by Noyes Press. (Noyes Press was purchased by William Andrew which itself was purchased by Elsevier). The copy i purchased was a reprint published in 1992 by The Banton Press which still has it listed under Miscellaneous. It's a cheap reprint--not all the pages were copied straight and the glue binding is not holding the papers well anymore--but i got a good book for a good price. The ISBN is 1856520463, for which a google search seems to produce some results. There seems to be other translations as well.
A friend found an introductory article to the work which explains a little bit about it and its setup. Ignoring the introduction and notes, the book is split into 5 parts--each called a book, and seemingly published as such--with an introduction and sections in each book explaining how to interpret dreams. The first four books are rules, and the last one gives examples. The first two were published, the third was added to answer criticism that he left things out. These three are dedicated to Cassius Maximus. The last two are dedication to his (Aretemidorus') son Artemidorus, to whom he writes in the introduction of the fourth:
>You must keep in mind, however, that this book has been addressed to you so that you will use it for your own purposes, not that you will make it accessible to other by making copies of it. For what is written here, as long as it remains with you alone, will make you a more excellent interpreter of dreams than anyone and inferior to no man. But once it becomes the common property of everyone, it will be obvious that you know nothing more than everyone else.
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I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
They’re on standbi
A play on words.
Pilot on me!!
My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Or would that be too forward thinking?
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
When I got home, they were still there.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
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Where ever you left it 🤷♀️🤭
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
Any translation will do. Thank you.
