# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aristeas
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:11:28.722Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aristeas"
name: "Aristeas"
slug: "aristeas"
description: "Aristeas was a semi-legendary Greek poet and miracle-worker, a native of Proconnesus in Asia Minor, active ca. 7th century BC. The Suda claims that, whenever he wished, his soul could leave his body and return again. In book IV.13-16 of The Histories, Herodotus reports:The birthplace of Aristeas, the poet who sung of these things, I have already mentioned. I will now relate a tale which I heard concerning him both at Proconnesus and at Cyzicus. Aristeas, they said, who belonged to one of the noblest families in the island, had entered one day into a fuller's shop, when he suddenly dropt down dead. Hereupon the fuller shut up his shop, and went to tell Aristeas' kindred what had happened. The report of the death had just spread through the town, when a certain Cyzicenian, lately arrived from Artaca, contradicted the rumour, affirming that he had met Aristeas on his road to Cyzicus, and had spoken with him. This man, therefore, strenuously denied the rumour; the relations, however, proceeded to the fuller's shop with all things necessary for the funeral, intending to carry the body away. But on the shop being opened, no Aristeas was found, either dead or alive. Seven years afterwards he reappeared, they told me, in Proconnesus, and wrote the poem called by the Greeks the Arimaspeia, after which he disappeared a second time. This is the tale current in the two cities above-mentioned."
tagline: "Ancient Greek poet"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "-600"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.309719934102142
  historical:           17.58276133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%BF%E9%87%8C%E6%96%AF%E6%8F%90%E4%BA%9A%E6%96%AF"
    title: "阿里斯提亚斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prokonnesli_Aristey"
    title: "Prokonnesli Aristey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ar%C3%ADstees_de_Proconn%C3%A8s"
    title: "Arístees de Proconnès"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariste%C3%A1s"
    title: "Aristeás"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristeas"
    title: "Aristeas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CE%AD%CE%B1%CF%82_%CE%BF_%CE%A0%CF%81%CE%BF%CE%BA%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%BD%CE%AE%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82"
    title: "Αριστέας ο Προκοννήσιος"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristeas"
    title: "Aristeas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristeas_de_Proconeso"
    title: "Aristeas de Proconeso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristeas_Prokonnesoslainen"
    title: "Aristeas Prokonnesoslainen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arist%C3%A9e_de_Proconn%C3%A8se"
    title: "Aristée de Proconnèse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristeas_de_Proconeso"
    title: "Aristeas de Proconeso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariszteasz"
    title: "Ariszteasz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristea_di_Proconneso"
    title: "Aristea di Proconneso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mwl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristeas_de_Proconeso"
    title: "Aristeas de Proconeso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristeas"
    title: "Aristeas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristeas"
    title: "Aristeas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristeas_de_Proconeso"
    title: "Aristeas de Proconeso"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%B8%D0%B7_%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B0"
    title: "Аристей из Проконнеса"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristej"
    title: "Aristej"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristej"
    title: "Aristej"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8D%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Аристэас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D1%96%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9"
    title: "Арістей Проконнеський"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump