Aristaenetus

For other uses, see Aristaenetus (disambiguation).

Aristaenetus (Greek: Ἀρισταίνετος) 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]