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
- ^ a b 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.
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