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.
Texts
- Boissonade ; Hercher, Epistolographi Graeci.
- English translations: Abel Boyer ; Thomas Brown ; R. B. Sheridan and Nathaniel Halhed.