"Pliny tells us that Demokritos was instructed in magic by Ostanes the Mede."
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, A Short History of Chemistry (1894) p. 9.
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Osthanes
Ostanes (from Greek ), also spelled Hostanes and Osthanes was named in Greek and Latin pseudepigraphies as early as the . Together with and , Ostanes belongs to the group of pseudepigraphical "Hellenistic ans", writing under pseudonyms of famous "Magians." He was an imagined master sorcerer, sage, astrologer, and philosopher claimed by some to have lived in the 5th century BC and as early as 400 BC.
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