Aristaenetus

Aristaenetus (Greek: Ἀρισταίνητος) was an ancient Greek epistolographer who flourished in the 5th or 6th century. Under his name, two books of love stories, in the form of letters, are extant; the subjects are borrowed from the erotic elegies of such Alexandrian writers as Callimachus, and the language is a patchwork of phrases from Plato, Lucian, Alciphron and others.[1]

For other uses, see Aristaenetus (disambiguation).

Texts
  • Boissonade (1822); Hercher, Epistolographi Graeci (1873).
  • English translations: Boyer (1701); Thomas Brown (1715); R. B. Sheridan and Nathaniel Halhed (1771 and later).[1]

References
  1.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Aristaenetus". Encyclopædia Britannica. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 493.


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