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By Steven D. Smith

The Roman sophist Claudius Aelianus, born in Praeneste within the overdue moment century CE, spent his occupation cultivating a Greek literary personality. Aelian used to be a very popular author in the course of his personal lifetime, and his literary compilations will be influential for one thousand years and extra within the Roman international. This ebook argues that the De natura animalium, a miscellaneous treasury of animal lore and Aelian's maximum paintings, is a worldly literary critique of Severan Rome. Aelian's fascination with animals displays the cultural problems with his day: philosophy, faith, the exoticism of Egypt and India, intercourse, gender, and imperial politics. This examine additionally considers how Aelian's pursuits within the De natura animalium are echoed in his different works, the country Letters and the Varia Historia. Himself a sought after determine of mainstream Roman Hellenism, Aelian subtle his literary aesthetic to supply a studying of nature that's either ethical and provocative.

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