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Imaginary likeness of Aelian from a 1610 edition of the Varia Historia. Claudius Aelianus (Ancient Greek: Κλαύδιος Αἰλιανός, Greek transliteration Kláudios Ailianós; [1] c. 175 – c. 235 AD), commonly Aelian (/ ˈ iː l i ən /), born at Praeneste, was a Roman author and teacher of rhetoric who flourished under Septimius Severus and probably outlived Elagabalus, who died in ...
Under the empire the Aelian name became still more celebrated. It was the name of the emperor Hadrian, and consequently of the Antonines, whom he adopted. A number of landmarks built by Hadrian also bear the name Aelius. The Pons Aelius is a bridge in Rome, now known as the Ponte Sant'Angelo.
Aelianus Tacticus (Ancient Greek: Αἰλιανὸς ὀ Τακτικός; fl. 2nd century AD), also known as Aelian (/ ˈ iː l i ən /), was a Greek military writer who lived in Rome. Work [ edit ]
Aelian or Aelianus may refer to: . Aelianus Tacticus, 2nd-century Greek military writer in Rome; Casperius Aelianus (13–98 AD), Praetorian Prefect, executed by Trajan; Claudius Aelianus, Roman writer of De Natura Animalium, teacher and historian of the 3rd century, who wrote in Greek
Under the inspiration drawn from the book series specializing in publishing classical texts exclusively in the original languages, such as the Bibliotheca Teubneriana, established in 1849 or the Oxford Classical Texts book series, founded in 1894, [2] the Loeb Classical Library was conceived and initially funded by the Jewish-German-American banker and philanthropist James Loeb (1867–1933).
Other Greek literary works he edited are the scholia to Aristophanes' Knights (with D. Melvyn Jones, 1969) and Acharnians (1975), an anthology of Byzantine prose (1971), Basil the Great's Address to Young Men (1975), Menander Rhetor's treatise (with D. A. Russell, 1981), Aelian's Historical Miscellany (1997) and Pietro Bembo's Oration in ...
Aelianus or Aelian was together with Amandus the leader of an insurrection of Gallic peasants, called Bagaudae, in the reign of Diocletian. It was put down by the Caesar Maximianus Herculius in 285. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The rebellion he led with Amandus in 285 was attributed by some to Christianity, but Edward Gibbon doubts this in The Decline and ...
A prose translation of The Miroir or Glasse of the Synneful Soul from the French, made in 1544 by the Princess (afterwards Queen) Elizabeth, then eleven years of age. Reprodued in facsimile, with portrait, for the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom, and edited, with an introduction and notes, by Percy W. Ames (1853–1919).