Aristides of Miletus (redirected from Milesian tale)

Aristides of Miletus 

Greek writer who lived during the second or first century B.C.

Aristides’ Milesian Tales in six books is the first example of short-story writing with an erotic content. The stories of Aristides had an influence on Ovid, Petronius, Apuleius, and Lucian. The Greek original has not been preserved; only scanty fragments in Latin translation are still in existence.

WORKS

Petronii Saturae, 5th ed. Edited by F. Biicheler. Berlin, 1912.

REFERENCES

Istoriia grecheskoi literatury, vol. 1. Edited by S. I. Sobolevskii [and others]. Moscow, 1946.
Tronskii, I. M. Istoriia antichnoi literatury, 3rd ed. Leningrad, 1957.