| Volume I. On the Characteristics of Animals Books 1-5 Aelian's Characteristics of Animals is an appealing collection of facts and fables about the animal kingdom that invites the reader to ponder contrasts between human and animal behavior. Series No. 446 / 390 pages / ISBN 0-674-99491-4 |
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| Volume II. On the Characteristics of Animals Books 6-11 Aelian's Characteristics of Animals is an appealing
collection of facts and fables about the animal kingdom that
invites the reader to ponder contrasts between human and animal
behavior. |
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| Volume III. On the Characteristics of Animals Books 12-17 Aelian's Characteristics of Animals is an appealing
collection of facts and fables about the animal kingdom that
invites the reader to ponder contrasts between human and animal
behavior. |
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Alciphron, Aelian, and Philostratus: The Letters
Aelian offers us entertaining vignettes of rural life in twenty letters
that portray the country ways of their imagined writers. This volume
also contains invented letters--mostly to fictitious characters--by
Alciphron and, in the same genre, the Erotic Epistles of Philostratus
(probably Flavius Philostratus, author of Apollonius of Tyana). |
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| Historical Miscellany Aelian's Historical Miscellany (Varia Historia) is a pleasurable example of light reading for Romans of the early third century. Offering engaging anecdotes about historical figures, retellings of legendary events, and enjoyable descriptive pieces, Aelian's collection of nuggets and narratives appealed to a wide reading public. Here are anecdotes about the famous Greek philosophers,
poets, historians, and playwrights; myths instructively retold;
moralizing tales about heroes and rulers, athletes and wise men;
reports about food and drink, styles in dress, religious belief,
and death customs. Underlying it all are Aelian's Stoic ideals
as well as this Roman's great admiration for the culture of the
Greeks (whose language he borrowed for his writings). |