 2nd century BCE), who was a writer of shameless and amusing tales notable for their salacious content and unexpected plot twists.Aristides set his tales in Miletus, which had a reputation for a luxurious, easy-going lifestyle, akin to that of Sybaris in Magna Graecia; there is no reason to think that he was in any sense "of" Miletus himself.Later, in the first century BCE, the serious-minded historian Lucius Cornelius Sisenna translated Aristides into Latin under the title "Milesiae fabulae" ("Milesian Fables") for an intellectual relaxation.