Aristaenetus (Greek:Ἀρισταίνετος) was anancient Greekepistolographer 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 theerotic elegies of suchAlexandrian writers asCallimachus, and the language is a patchwork of phrases fromPlato,Lucian,Alciphron and others.[1]
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