Man and animal in Severan Rome : the literary imagination of Claudius Aelianus /
Smith, Steven D.,1974-author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Approaching the De natura animalium -- The independent intellectual -- Animals and agroikoi in Aelian's rustic letters -- The hazards of variety -- The Hellenized Roman -- Stoicism -- Animals, divinity, and myth -- Egypt and India -- The sexual animal -- Bees, lions, eagles: Aelian and kingship -- After animals: the women of the Varia historia -- Conclusion: "nature produces animals with many voices and many sounds, you might say ..." -- Appendix: reconstructing Aelian's Kategoria tou gunnidos.
Aelian, active 3rd century.
Aelian, active 3rd century
Animals in literature.
Human-animal relationships in literature.
Animals