Aristaenetus
Aristaenetus 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.
Aristaenetus
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- 400
- Died
- 500
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- writer
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- Ancient Greek
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Aristaenetus 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.
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400
Aristaenetus born.
500
Aristaenetus died.
Texts
• Boissonade (1822); Hercher, Epistolographi Graeci (1873). • English translations: Abel Boyer (1701); Thomas Brown (1715); R. B. Sheridan and Nathaniel Halhed (1771 and later).
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 102381305, Aristaenetus, Historicus.
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- Getty Union List of Artist Names 500055883, Aristaenetus.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q664196: Aristaenetus
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- “Aristaenetus”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Attempts at reconciliation in Aristaenetus' "Erotic letters", Umjetnost Riječi, 2023
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