ARISTAENETUS, EROTIC LETTERS Writings from the Greco-Roman World David Konstan and Johan C. Thom, General Editors Editorial Board Erich S. Gruen Wendy Mayer Margaret M. Mitchell Teresa Morgan Ilaria L. E. Ramelli Michael J. Roberts Karin Schlapbach James C. VanderKam L. Michael White Number 32 Volume Editor Patricia A. Rosenmeyer ARISTAENETUS, EROTIC LETTERS Introduced, translated and annotated by Peter Bing and Regina Höschele Society of Biblical Literature Atlanta ARISTAENETUS, EROTIC LETTERS Copyright © 2014 by the Society of Biblical Literature All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by means of any information storage or retrieval system, except as may be expressly permit- ted by the 1976 Copyright Act or in writing from the publisher. 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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. 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