1610 LOVE STORIES by ARISTAENETUS antique GREEK & LATIN vellum binding RARE

Epistolae Graecae. Cum Latina Interpretatione & Notis. Tertia Editio Emendatior & Auctior.

By Aristaenetus (fl. circa 5th or 6th CE)

Paris: Marcum Orry, 1610.

Size 4.5 by 7"

Text printed in Greek and Latin on facing pages, bound in full original vellum over boards,
title page with period ink ownership inscription,

engraved bookplate of the Earl of Jersey, Victor Albert George Child Villiers inside front board

Very good condition, minor occasional foxing

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Aristaenetus left us this collection of fictional erotic and comedic letters modeled on earlier classical examples.
"Aristaenetus amazes us with tales of paramours hatching complicated schemes to achieve their desires, while wily go-betweens help smooth their way.
He presents us with accounts of unfaithful spouses who barely avoid capture in the midst of hair-raising and amusing infidelities." (Quoted from Peter Bing and Regina Höschele's 2014 English edition published by the Society of Biblical Literature.)
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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.
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