Aristaenetus

For other uses, see Aristaenetus (disambiguation).

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]

Texts

• Boissonade (1822); Hercher, Epistolographi Graeci (1873).
• English translations: Abel 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. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 493.

External links

• The Love Epistles of Aristænetus 1771 Translated by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751-1816
• Epistolographi graeci, R. Hercher (ed.), Parisiis, editore Ambrosio Firmin Didot, 1873, pp. 133-171.