Aristeas

Aristeās, æ, m. , poète de lʼîle de Proconnèse : Plin. 7, 174.

Aristeas

(Ἀριστέας). An epic poet of Proconnesus, of whose life we have only fabulous accounts. His date is quite uncertain. He is represented as a magician, whose soul could leave and re-enter its body according to its pleasure. He was connected with the worship of Apollo, which he was said to have introduced at Metapontum. He wrote an epic poem on the Arimaspi (q.v.), in three books, from which the pseudoLonginus quotes. See Herod. iv. 13.

Aristeas Aristeas, of Proconnesus

• poet, his account of the griffins and Arimaspians: Paus. 1.24.6
• son of Caystrobius, his travels in the north, disappearance and subsequent reappearance after 340 years: Hdt. 4.13-16

• Aristaeus

Aristeas(2), of Stratonicea

• Olympic victor: Paus. 5.21.10

Aristeas(3), a Corinthian

• son of Adeimantus: Hdt. 7.137