Table Of ContentARISTAENETUS, EROTIC LETTERS
Writings from the Greco-Roman World
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ARISTAENETUS, EROTIC LETTERS
Introduced, translated and annotated by
Peter Bing and Regina Höschele
Society of Biblical Literature
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ARISTAENETUS, EROTIC LETTERS
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Aristaenetus, author.
Erotic letters / Aristaenetus ; introduced, translated, and annotated by Peter Bing and
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Contents
Abbreviations vii
Introduction xi
Text and Translation
Book 1
1.1 2
1.2 4
1.3 6
1.4 10
1.5 12
1.6 14
1.7 16
1.8 18
1.9 18
1.10 20
1.11 26
1.12 26
1.13 30
1.14 34
1.15 34
1.16 38
1.17 40
1.18 42
1.19 44
1.20 48
1.21 48
1.22 50
1.23 52
1.24 52
vi CONTENTS
1.25 54
1.26 56
1.27 58
1.28 60
Book 2
2.1 64
2.2 68
2.3 68
2.4 70
2.5 72
2.6 74
2.7 76
2.8 78
2.9 78
2.10 80
2.11 82
2.12 82
2.13 84
2.14 86
2.15 86
2.16 88
2.17 90
2.18 92
2.19 94
2.20 96
2.21 98
2.22 98
Notes 103
Bibliography 143
Abbreviations
General
f. folio
fl. floruit, flourished
fr(s). fragment(s)
scil. scilicet, namely
v(v). verse(s)
Primary Resources
Ach. Aristophanes, Acharnians
Am. Amores (Ovid, Pseudo-Lucian)
Anth. pal. Anthologia Palatina
Anth. plan. Anthologia Planudea
Argon. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica
Ars Ovid, Ars Amatoria
Carm. Carmina (Catullus, Horace, Sidonius Apollinaris)
Charm. Plato, Charmides
Chron. John Malalas, Chronographia
Cod. justin. Codex justinianus
Cycl. Euripides, Cyclops
Demetr. Plutarch, Demetrius
Dial. Court. Lucian, Dialogues of the Courtesans
Ep. Epistle(s) (Aelian, Aristaenetus, Synesius)
Epigr. Epigrammata (Callimachus)
Eph. Xenophon of Ephesus, Ephesiaka
Epitr. Menander, Epitrepontes
Ethop. Ethopoieiai (Libanius, Severus of Alexandria)
Fam. Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares
Gyn. Soranus, Gynecology
-vii-
viii ABBREVIATIONS
Hal. Oppian, Halieutica
Her. Ovid, Heroides
Hermot. Lucian, Hermotimus
Hipp. Euripides, Hippolytus
Hymn Apoll. Callimachus, Hymn to Apollo
Id. Theocritus, Idyll
Il. Homer, Iliad
Imag. Philostratus the Elder, Imagines
Lys. Aristophanes, Lysistrata
Metam. Ovid, Metamorphoses
Nat. Child Hippocrates, On the Nature of the Child
Nat. Hist. Pliny, Natural History
Od. Homer, Odyssey
Parm. Plato, Parmenides
Phaedr. Plato, Phaedrus
Protr. Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus
Pyth. Pindar, Pythian Odes
Rep. Plato, Republic
Soph. Plato, Sophist
Symp. Plato, Symposium
Theaet. Plato, Theaetetus
Theog. Hesiod, Theogony
W. D. Hesiod, Works and Days
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