Aelian's on the Nature of Animals

by Aelian

Book Overview

Not much can be said with certainty about the life of Claudius Aelianus, known to us as Aelian. He was born sometime between A.D. 165 and 170 in the hill town of Praeneste, what is now Palestrina, about twenty-five miles from Rome, Italy. He grew up speaking that town's version of Latin, a dialect that other speakers of the language seem to have found curious, but--somewhat unusually for his generation, though not for Romans of earlier times--he preferred...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595340750
• ISBN13: 9781595340757
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Trinity University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 7.3"