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Aelian
Sign in to saveAlso known as Claudius Ælianus, Claudius Aelianus, Ailianos, Ælian
Roman author and teacher (c.175–c.235)
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- 3rd cent.
- Works
- 72
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- Ailianou Poikilē historia
- Gli excerpta della "Historia animalium" di Eliano
- [Ailianou poikilēs historias vivlion prōton
- Æliani Variæ historiæ libri xiiii
- [Ailianou peri zōōn idiotētos biblia 17.]
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5 total works indexed
- Characteristics of Animals
· 1958 · cited 29x
- Historical Miscellany
· 1997 · cited 15x
- De animalium antura libri 17, Varia historia, Epistolae fragmenta, ex recognitione Rudolphi Hercheri. Accedunt rei accipitrariae scriptores Demetrii Pepagomeni Cynosophium. Georgii Pisidae Hexaëmeron, Fragmentum Herculanense
· 1864 · cited 1x
- Fragments
· 1997
- The Letters of Alciphron, Aelian and Philostratus
· 1952
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- 0200-00-00
- date of death
- 0235-01-01
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- Κλαύδιος Αἰλιανός
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- Claudius Aelianus
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Works in European collections
22 objects attributed to Aelian, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Imaginary likeness of Aelian from a 1610 edition of the Varia Historia Claudius Aelianus (Ancient Greek: Κλαύδιος Αἰλιανός, romanized: Klaúdios Ailianós; c. 175 – c. 235 AD), commonly Aelian (/ˈiːliən/), born at Praeneste, was a Roman author and teacher of rhetoric who flourished under Septimius Severus and probably outlived Elagabalus, who died in 222. He spoke Greek so fluently that he was called "honey-tongued" (μελίγλωσσος meliglossos); Roman-born, he preferred Greek authors, and wrote in a slightly archaizing Greek himself.
His two chief works are valuable for the numerous quotations from the works of earlier authors, which are otherwise lost, and for the surprising lore, which offers unexpected glimpses into the Greco-Roman world-view. De Natura Animalium is also the only surviving Greco-Roman work to name Gilgamesh.