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	Aristander - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The seer “Alexander” [Aristander?] interprets predicts the victory at Granicus.
		Aristander (in A) or “Egyptian soothsayers” (in C) interpret the omen favorably.
		Aristander scolds Macedonians for not dealing with Alexander’s body, and predicts a bright future for the city that holds it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aristander (718 words)

	Aristander - LoveToKnow 1911
		ARISTANDER, of Telmessus in Lycia, was the favourite soothsayer of Alexander the Great, who consulted him on all occasions.
		After the death of the monarch, when his body had lain unburied for thirty days, Aristander procured its burial by foretelling that the country in which it was interred would be the most prosperous in the world.
		He is frequently mentioned by the historians who wrote about Alexander, and was probably the author of a work on prodigies, which is referred to by Pliny (Nat.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Aristander (119 words)

	pothos.org - All about Alexander the Great (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Aristander of Telmessus Aristander was from Telmessus, in western Lycia in Asia Minor.
		Aristander’s job will have bee to officiate at sacrifices (for example, at Gaugamela: QC IV.13.15) — and we must remember that, in his role as chief religious official to the Macedonians, Alexander sacrificed at least once a day — and, more important as far as his role in the sources is concerned, to interpret omens.
		However, the fact that Aristander was still with the expedition, and still someone in whom Alexander had great confidence, suggests that the Telmessian was still high in favour, presumably through his priestly officiations.
	www.pothos.org /alexander.asp?ParaID=32 (1393 words)

	Aristander of Telmessus - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This Telmessus was also known for its diviners, and may have been an "offshoot" from the Lycian Telmessus, perhaps at the behest of one of the Hecatomnid rullers of Caria.
		Aristander "disappears" from the sources in 327 or 328, his last prophecies being before the death of Cleitus the Black and the discovery of petroleum at the Oxus.
		Aristander's home town, Telmessus in Caria (modern Fethiye), was a proverbial font of seers.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /wcd/Aristander_of_Telmessus (1275 words)

	pothos.org - Aristander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Aristander was from Telmessus in Lycia, and appears in Alexander’s history as the chief soothsayer, diviner and interpreter of dreams at the Macedonian court.
		Aristander’s skill can also be attested by the fact that he was clearly a long-term fixture at the Macedonian court.
		It is intriguing that Aristander drops out of the sources after his predictions in Bactria/Sogdia; but there is no indication that he died or was otherwise side-lined: he crops up again after Alexander’s death, according to Aelian (‘Varia Historiae’ 12.64).
	www.pothos.org /alexander.asp?paraID=128&keyword_id=9&title=Aristander (715 words)

	Aristander of Telmessus
		Aristander of Telmessus in Caria was Alexander the Great's favorite seer.
		In Artemidorus Aristander and in P “seers”; play with words (“sa tyros”="tyre is thine") to decide that Alexander will take the city.
		Writings by Aristander are attested in: Pliny (Natural History 17); Artemidorus (Interpretation of Dreams 1.31, 4.23-24); Origen (Contra Celsum 6.8.10); see Lucian (citation missing).
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/AristanderOfTelmessus.html (741 words)

	The birth of Alexander the Great
		And all the Eastern soothsayers who happened to be then at Ephesus, looking upon the ruin of this temple to be the forerunner of some other calamity, ran about the town, beating their faces, and crying that this day had brought forth something that would prove fatal and destructive to all Asia.
		Telmessus, modern Gurice near Bodrum, was a town in Caria, famous for its oracle and seers.
		Snake cults were known on the Balkans (e.g., Glykon), but this time, an Egyptian god was believed to be the father, not a god from the Balkans.
	www.livius.org /aj-al/alexander/alexander_t32.html (559 words)

	Artemidorus - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Aristander was in Tyre at the time, in attendance on the kind while he was waging war against the Tyrians.
		He was burned alive." It would be interesting if were Alexander's general and regent Antipater; this might imply Aristander's duties extended past Philip and Alexander to other members of the Macedonian elite.
		The writings of Alexander's seer Aristander of Telmessus are cited twice by Artemidorus (1.31, 4.23-24), suggesting a possible source for the story (or stories).
	www.ancientlibrary.com /wcd/Artemidorus (1014 words)

	Alexandria, Egypt Encyclopedia Article @ Declaring.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Arrian, tells how Alexander undertook to lay out the city's general plan, but lacking chalk or other means, resorted to sketching it out with grain.
		Aristander of Telmessus, interpreted this as an omen that the city would prosper, particularly in grain.
		First feared as an ill omen, Aristander the Seer averred it meant that the city would attract and feed many people.
	www.declaring.net /encyclopedia/Alexandria,_Egypt (3278 words)

	Plutarch - Alexander
		But Aristander told him, that far from presaging any ill to him, it signified he should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labor and sweat to describe and celebrate them.
		It happened at this time that Aristander, the soothsayer, after he had sacrificed, upon view of the entrails, affirmed confidently to those who stood by, that the city should be certainly taken that very month, upon which there was a laugh and some mockery among the soldiers, as this was the last day of it.
		From hence he sent great part of the spoils to Olympias, Cleopatra, and the rest of his friends, not omitting his preceptor Leonidas, on whom he bestowed five hundred talents weight of frankincense, and a hundred of myrrh, in remembrance of the hopes he had once expressed of him when he was but a child.
	www.starkrealities.com /plutarchalexander.html (5641 words)

	Dzhambul in the court of Alexander of Macedon? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		[Alexander's] "personal seer, Aristander of Telmessus, observing the overthrown statue of a former rebel satrap which lay outside the temple, predicted a great cavalry victory of the king [Alexander], in which he would slay an enemy general with his own hands.
		Aristander's ingenuity at interpreting omens knew no bounds.
		When a statue of Orpheus was reported to be sweating continually, he explained that this meant 'the writers of odes and the epic and melic poets had hard work coming to celebrate Alexander and his exploits in verse and song.
	www.cyberussr.com /rus/aristander.html (382 words)

	Women's Dreams in Ancient Greece - Robert Rouselle - Journal of Psychohistory 26(2) Fall 1998
		Aristander later accompanied Alexander on his conquest of Asia and left a collection of dream interpretations, which were still known in the second century A.D.,53 but have subsequently been lost.
		Olympias' anxiety on the eve of her wedding is symbolized by the fate of Semele, impregnated by Zeus and killed by his thunderbolt.
		This is the same Aristander whom Freud commends for his interpretation of Alexander's satyr dream during the siege of Tyre, p.
	www.geocities.com /kidhistory/ja/womens.htm (5472 words)

	Aristander av Telmessus - Wikipedia
		Selv om detaljer til tider varierer og noen hendelser er oppdiktede, hadde Aristander en innflytelsesrik tilstedeværelse i løpet av Aleksanders felttog og spilte en viktig rolle i å opprettholde moralen til den makedonske arméen.
		Der er indikasjoner på at han skrev skrifter om gudene enten før, i løpet av eller etter ekspedisjonen, selv om det også er mulig at disse verkene ble tilegnet ham.
		Timothy Spalding, "Aristander the Prophet and the Alexander Historians"
	no.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aristander_av_Telmessus (142 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| Alexander by Plutarch
		But Aristander told him that, far from presaging any ill to him, it signified he should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate them.
		From hence he sent great part of the spoils to Olympias, Cleopatra, and the rest of his friends, not omitting his preceptor Leonidas, on whom he bestowed five hundred talents' weight of frankincense and an hundred of myrrh, in remembrance of the hopes he had once expressed of him when he was but a child.
		After they had fought stoutly a pretty long while, at last he who was called Alexander had the better, and for a reward of his prowess had twelve villages given him, with leave to wear the Persian dress.
	classics.mit.edu /Plutarch/alexandr.html (6966 words)

	Alexander the Great
		But Aristander of Telmessus* - who afterwards accompanied Alexander to Asia - had a more acceptable explanation: Olympias was pregnant, and with a spirited, lion-like son.
		Alexander stormed the fortified city port of Tyre in modern Lebanon, seizing the city after a siege of seven months (Alexander had a dream that Heracles invited him into Tyre and Aristander's interpretation was that to take Tyre it requires a Herculean effort).
		The punishment of the population was terrible: 8000 men killed (2000 crucified on the beach and left to decompose) 30000 women and children taken as slaves.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Alexander.htm (3991 words)

	Alexander the Great
		In Philip's dream, he sealed her womb with the seal of the lion.
		Alarmed by this, he consulted the seer Aristander of Telmessus, who determined that his wife was pregnant and that the child would have the character of a lion.
		Aristotle was Alexander's tutor; he gave Alexander a thorough training in rhetoric and literature and stimulated his interest in science, medicine, and philosophy.
	123himachal.com /alexander.htm (1306 words)

	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2004046813
		He saw himself sealing up his wife's womb; on the seal was engraved the figure of a lion.
		Interpreting this dream, Aristander of Telmessus, who later served as Alexander's seer during his campaigns, declared that Olympias must be pregnant, since men did not seal up what was empty, and that she would bear a son whose nature would be bold and lion-like.
		That bold and lion-like son probably was born on July 20, 356, the very day when the great Temple of Artemis at Ephesos, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, burned to the ground.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/random051/2004046813.html (2180 words)

	JESUS: More than a babe in the manger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The men charged with interpreting oracles were made suspicious by this vision and told Philip to keep a closer watch on his marital affairs.
		But Aristander of Telmessus said [the vision meant that] her husband had impregnated her, for nothing is sealed if it is empty, and that she was pregnant with a child whose nature would be courageous and lion-like.
		On another occasion, a great snake appeared, while Olympias was asleep, and would coil itself around her body.
	www.faithfutures.org /FLC/ParallelBirths.html (3013 words)

	ANF02. Fathers of the Second Century: Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, and Clement of Alexandria (Entire) \| ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Another was Jamus in Elis, from whom came the Jamidæ; and Polyidus at Argos and Megara, who is mentioned by the tragedy.
		There are others, too, besides these: Idmon, who was with the Argonauts, Phemonoe of Delphi, Mopsus the son of Apollo and Manto in Pamphylia, and Amphilochus the son of Amphiaraus in Cilicia, Alcmæon among the Acarnanians, Anias in Delos, Aristander of Telmessus, who was along with Alexander.
		Philochorus also relates in the first book of the work, On Divination, that Orpheus was a seer.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/anf02.vi.iv.i.xxi.html?highlight=c (7983 words)

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