Look up: aristeas

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   Aristeas
   `Aristeas` was a semi-legendary Greek poet and miracle-worker, a native of Proconnesus in Asia Minor, active ca. 7th century BCE. In book IV of `The History`, Herodotus reports that Aristeas appeared to drop down dead in a fuller's shop, but before his relatives could collect the body, disappeared, only to return six years later. Aristeas was supposed to have authored a poem called the `Arimaspea`, giving an account of travels in the far North....
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   Aristeas
   (from the article `Aristeas, Letter of`) Modern scholars call this work a `letter` because it was addressed by Aristeas to his brother Philocrates. The narrative draws upon a wide variety of ... An important document of Jewish Hellenistic literature is The Letter of Aristeas, a pseudepigraphon ascribed to Aristeas, an official...
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