The reputation of the old wizard [Aristeas] of Proconnesus lingered on in nearby Byzantium until the fourteenth century; it may still linger somewhere today, connected as ever with strange things, for the ship which in 1938 fished up a living coelacanth, as it were from the Mesozoic era, was called Aristea.
J.D.P. Bolton, Aristeas of Proconnesus










