see Lucian (citation missing). It is possible that Aristander's writings were, instead, a product of an Aristandrian "school." Aristander's home town, Telmessus in Caria (modern Fethiye), was a proverbial font of seers. There may be some connection between the two items of "Successor Propaganda" (18–19, favoring Lysimachus and Ptolemy) and the rule of Ptolemy I Epigone as dynast in Telmessos. Ptolemy as the son of Lysimachus inherited his father's claims, but eventually made peace with Ptolemy III Euergetes and the Ptolemaic dynasty. References Sources Berve, Helmut. Das Alexanderreich auf prosopographischer Grundlage. Two volumes. C. H. Beck, München 1926, no. 117. Gattinoni, F. L. "L'indovino Aristandro e l'eredità dei Telmessii", in M. Sordi (ed.), La profezia nel mondo antico (Milan 1993), pp. 123-38. . Grunewalt, William Steven. "A Macedonian Mantis", AncW 5 (1982). Heckel, Waldemar. Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great: Prosopography of Alexander's Empire. Blackwell Publishing, 2006. King, Carole J. Alexander and Divination: Dreams, Omens, and Aristander of Telmessus in the Alexander Historians. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Brown University, 2004. Nice, Alex. "The reputation of the mantis Aristander", Acta Classica 48 (2005) (in honorem Prof. J.E.A. Atkinson). Plezia, M. "De Aristandri vaticinio", Eos 59 (1971) 227-30. Robinson, C. A. "The Seer Aristander", AJP 50 (1929). Spalding, Tim. "Aristander the Prophet and the Alexander Historians" (Presentation at the 1997 meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South). External links Wiki Classical Dictionary: Aristander of Telmessus Pothos.org: Aristander, biography by Marcus Pailing 4th-century BC Greek people 4th-century BC clergy Ancient Greek seers Ancient Greeks in Caria Seers of Alexander the Great Courtiers of Philip II of Macedon 4th-century BC deaths 380s BC births