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Ancient Greek epistolographer
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Biography
Introduction
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.
Texts
- Boissonade (1822); Hercher, Epistolographi Graeci (1873).
- English translations: Boyer (1701); Thomas Brown (1715); R. B. Sheridan and Nathaniel Halhed (1771 and later).