Research Catalog

Title

Man and animal in Severan Rome : the literary imagination of Claudius Aelianus / Steven D. Smith.

Author

Smith, Steven D., 1974-

Publication

• Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
• ©2014

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Details

Description

xii, 308 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Greek culture in the Roman world

Uniform Title

Greek culture in the Roman world.

Subjects

• Animals in literature
• Aelian, active 3rd century > De natura animalium

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-298) and indexes.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFE 14-6867

ISBN

• 9781107033986 (hardback)
• 1107033985 (hardback)

LCCN

2014002503

OCLC

870248739

Author

Smith, Steven D., 1974- author.

Title

Man and animal in Severan Rome : the literary imagination of Claudius Aelianus / Steven D. Smith.

Publisher

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Copyright Date

©2014

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Greek culture in the Roman world

Greek culture in the Roman world.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-298) and indexes.

Research Call Number

JFE 14-6867