On Animals, Volume I: Books 1-5 [Greek, Ancient (To 1453)]

by Aelian

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Aelian (Claudius Aelianus), a Roman born ca. AD 170 at Praeneste, was a pupil of the rhetorician Pausanias of Caesarea, and taught and practiced rhetoric. Expert in Attic Greek, he became a serious scholar and studied history under the patronage of the Roman empress Julia Domna. He apparently spent all his life in Italy where he died after AD 230.

Aelian's On the Characteristics of Animals,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Greek, Ancient (To 1453)
• ISBN: 0674994914
• ISBN13: 9780674994911
• Release Date: January 1958
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.6" x 6.7"