The Letters of Alciphron, Aelian and Philostratus (Inbunden)
avAlciphron, Aelian, Philostratus
ISBN: 9780674994218 - UTGIVEN: 1979-06The "Letters" of Alciphron (second century CE) constitute one of the most attractive products of the Second Sophistic. They are fictitious compositions based on an astonishingly wide variety of circumstances, though the theme of erotic love is constantly sounded. The imagination shown by the author [...]
Aelian
ISBN: 9780674994911 - UTGIVEN: 1958-06In On the Characteristics of Animals, Aelian (c. 170 after 230 CE) collects facts and fables about the animal kingdom and invites the reader to ponder contrasts between human and animal behavior.[...]
Aelian
ISBN: 9780674994935 - UTGIVEN: 1958-06In On the Characteristics of Animals, Aelian (c. 170 after 230 CE) collects facts and fables about the animal kingdom and invites the reader to ponder contrasts between human and animal behavior.[...]
Aelian
ISBN: 9780674994942 - UTGIVEN: 1958-06In On the Characteristics of Animals, Aelian (c. 170 after 230 CE) collects facts and fables about the animal kingdom and invites the reader to ponder contrasts between human and animal behavior.[...]
Aelian's on the Nature of Animals (Häftad)
avGregory McNamee
ISBN: 9781595340757 - UTGIVEN: 2011-08Trained by a sophist named Pausanias of Caesarea, Aelian was known in his time for a work called "Indictment of the Effeminate", an attack on the emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. He was also fond of making almanac-like collections, only fragments of which survive, devoted to odd topics such as man[...]
The Tactics of Aelian (Inbunden)
avChristopher Matthew
ISBN: 9781848849006 - UTGIVEN: 2012-10Aelian's work on tactics is a hugely significant piece of ancient military literature, yet the last new edition in English was published in 1814. Although writing (in his native Greek) in the second century AD, Aelian drew heavily on earlier works, such as Asclepiodotus, to put together a comprehens[...]
