Aristandro

Aristandro
Nascimento	Desconhecido; Telmessos
Morte	século IV a.C.
Cidadania	Macedónia Antiga
Ocupação	clairvoyant
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Aristandro era visto como o conselheiro e interpretador de sonhos e presságios de Alexandre, o Grande. Foi visto por Alexandre em uma praia quando este ainda estava libertando as cidades gregas localizadas na Ásia. Logo da morte do rei profetizou que o país onde se realizasse o enterro do seu corpo far-se-ia grande. Por isso Ptolomeu I ordenou o saque do seu corpo.^[1]

Aristander já estava na comitiva de Filipe II em 357/6, quando interpretou corretamente um sonho como revelando a gravidez de Olímpia. As fontes antigas o colocam interpretando presságios desde o nascimento do conquistador até sua morte. Embora os detalhes sejam dados de várias maneiras e alguns incidentes fictícios, Aristandro foi claramente uma presença influente durante as campanhas de Alexandre e desempenhou um papel importante na elevação do moral do exército macedônio. Há indícios de que escreveu obras divinatórias antes, durante ou depois da expedição, embora também seja possível que essas obras tenham sido atribuídas de forma espúria.^[2]

Referências

↑ Berve, Helmut. Das Alexanderreich auf prosopographischer Grundlage.
↑ Heckel, pp. 45-46. "Aristander (Aristandros). Greek from Telmessus (Telmissus), Aristander accompanied Alexander as a seer of great renown. Born perhaps ca. 380 (thus Berve ii.62), Aristander was already in Philip's entourage in 357/6, when he correctly interpreted a dream revealing Olympias' pregnancy. During Alexander's campaigns he interpreted various omens for the King: the sweating of the statue of Orpheus; the toppling of the statue of Ariobarzanes; the actions of birds of Halicarnassus (A 1.25.6-8 relating to the plot of Alexander the Lyncestian) and at Gaza and at the founding of Alexandria in Egypt; bleeding bread or dreams about Heracles at Tyre; and oil at the Oxus. Aristander's services were also sought before and at Gaugamela, the Persian Gates, at the Iaxartes. It is also said that Aristander and Cleomenes were instructed by Alexander to sacrifice on behalf of Cleitus' safety. Two other references to Aristander are almost certainly unhistorical: thirty days after Alexander's death Aristander was supposed to have predicted that the land that became home to his body would enjoy great prosperity, thus causing Ptolemy to bring it to Egypt; Aristander was also supposed to have predicted Lysimachus' kingship. Fränkel and Robinson 1929 believed that Aristander was a feature of Callisthenes' history and they attribute his disappearance after 328/7 to the historian's demise. It is more likely, however, that Aristander simply died of illness or old age during the campaign."

[1] Berve, Helmut. Das Alexanderreich auf prosopographischer Grundlage.

[2] Heckel, pp. 45-46. "Aristander (Aristandros). Greek from Telmessus (Telmissus), Aristander accompanied Alexander as a seer of great renown. Born perhaps ca. 380 (thus Berve ii.62), Aristander was already in Philip's entourage in 357/6, when he correctly interpreted a dream revealing Olympias' pregnancy. During Alexander's campaigns he interpreted various omens for the King: the sweating of the statue of Orpheus; the toppling of the statue of Ariobarzanes; the actions of birds of Halicarnassus (A 1.25.6-8 relating to the plot of Alexander the Lyncestian) and at Gaza and at the founding of Alexandria in Egypt; bleeding bread or dreams about Heracles at Tyre; and oil at the Oxus. Aristander's services were also sought before and at Gaugamela, the Persian Gates, at the Iaxartes. It is also said that Aristander and Cleomenes were instructed by Alexander to sacrifice on behalf of Cleitus' safety. Two other references to Aristander are almost certainly unhistorical: thirty days after Alexander's death Aristander was supposed to have predicted that the land that became home to his body would enjoy great prosperity, thus causing Ptolemy to bring it to Egypt; Aristander was also supposed to have predicted Lysimachus' kingship. Fränkel and Robinson 1929 believed that Aristander was a feature of Callisthenes' history and they attribute his disappearance after 328/7 to the historian's demise. It is more likely, however, that Aristander simply died of illness or old age during the campaign."

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