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Ostanes
Ostanes (from Greek ), also spelled Osthanes, was the pen-name used by several pseudo-anonymous authors of Greek and Latin works from Hellenistic period onwards. Together with Pseudo-Zoroaster and Pseudo-Hystaspes, Ostanes belongs to the group of pseudepigraphical "Hellenistic Magians", that is, a long line of Greek and other Hellenistic writers who wrote ''under the name of'' famous "Magians". While Pseudo-Zoroaster was identified as the "inventor" of astrology, and Pseudo-Hystaspes was stereotyped as an apocalyptic prophet, Ostanes was imagined to be a master sorcerer.
==Real Ostanes?==
Unlike "Zoroaster" and "Hystaspes", which have well attested Iranian language counterparts, for "Ostanes" there is "no evidence of a figure of a similar name in Iranian tradition."〔.〕〔''cf.'' .〕 In the ''Encyclopedia Iranica'' entry for Ostanes, Morton Smith cites Justi's ''Namensbuch'' for instances of the name which refer to real persons. Smith: "Which (these references to ) Ostanes (...), if any, gave rise to the legend of the magus is uncertain."
Smith goes on to reconstruct the Old Iranian name as
*(H)uštāna. The Justi entries that Smith alludes to are: Diodorus 17.5.5 and Plutarch ''Artax.'' 1.1.5 (cit. Ktesias) for Ὀστάνης as the name of one of the sons of Darius Nothos, and a mention in Arrian (''An.'' 4.22) of a certain Αὐστάνης of Paraetakene, north-east of Bactria, who was captured by Alexander's general Krateros and then taken to India. Arrian's Αὐστάνης is Haustanes in Curtius 8.5. Ktesias names 'Άρτόστης' as the son of Darius Nothus, and Justi suggests that Plutarch confused Artostes as Ostanes.
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