Man and animal in Severan Rome : the literary imagination of Claudius Aelianus /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Smith, Steven D. (συγγραφέας)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
• Σειρά: Greek culture in the roman world
• Θέματα: Αιλιανός, > 3ος αιώνας > De natura animalium; Ζώα στη λογοτεχνία

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.