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Man and animal in Severan Rome : the literary imagination of Claudius Aelianus
- 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.
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- Description
- xii, 308 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Greek culture in the Roman world
- Uniform Title
- Greek culture in the Roman world.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (280-298), appendix, and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781107033986 (hardback)
- 1107033985 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2014002503
- 40024181869
- OCLC
- ocn870248739
- 870248739
- SCSB-5817104
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries