Aristainetus
Aristainetus was a late ancient Greek writer. He probably lived in the 5th century.
Almost nothing is known about his life and his exact date is uncertain. Only a collection of 50 erotic letters from his work has survived in two books, the subject of which is the treatment of different facets of erotic conquest. Hetaerae and wives have their say, for example a hetaerae who expresses her anger at the fact that she is expected to pay serenades instead of money, or a wife who desires a friend's slave and is willing to exchange her husband for the friend to provide.
Aristainetos quoted older authors, especially novelists, but also Plato and Callimachus .
Editions and translations
- Epistolographi Graeci: accedunt Francisci Boissonadii ad Synesium notae ineditae. Recensuit, recogn., Annotatione critica et indicibus instruxit Rudolphus Hercher . Didot, Paris 1873. Greek text and Latin translation.
- Hans Licht : Love letters from Aristainetus. Dresden 1928
- Aristainetus: Erotic Letters. Translated and introduced by Albin Lesky . Artemis, Zurich 1951 ( Library of the Old World ).
- Bernhard Kytzler (Ed.): Erotic letters from ancient Greece: Aristainetus, Alkiphron, Ailianos, Philostratos, Theophylaktos Simokattes. Winkler, Munich 1967.
literature
- Jürgen Werner: Aristainetos. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, column 551.
- Paul Kroh: Lexicon of ancient authors (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 366). Kröner, Stuttgart 1972, ISBN 3-520-36601-0 , p. 75.
Web link
- Literature by and about Aristainetos in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aristainetus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century or 5th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th century |