Oppian, Colluthus, Tryphiodorus
By: with an English translation by A. W. Mair ...
Contributors: Fowling.0  Colluthus, of Lycopolis.; Tryphiodorus.; Tryphiodorus.10 Mair, A. W. 1875-1928.
Series: Half-title: The Loeb classical library.  [Greek authors]
Publisher: Harvard University Press; W. Heinemann, ltd.
Published: 1963
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 635
Subjects: Zoology -- Pre-Linnean works; Zoology -- Classification; Hunting; Hunting; Fishing
Genres: Classification
Notes: "First printed 1928."

Greek and English on opposite pages.

The author of the Halieutica is Oppianus of Anazarbus (or of Corycus) in Cilicia; the Cynegetica is by a native (of the same name?) of Apamea in Syria.

Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Oppian; Introduction: The authorship of the poems.  Zoology before Oppian.  Hunting, fishing, fowling.  On the identification of certain fishes.  Some animal idiosyncrasies.  Analyses. Bibliography.; title: Cynegetica, or The chase.; title: Halieutica, or Fishing.; title: Classified zoological catalogue.; title: Colluthus: The rape of Helen.; title: Tryphiodorus: The talking of Ilios.