Man and animal in Severan Rome : the literary imagination of Claudius Aelianus /
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Greek culture in the roman world
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Table of 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.
