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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 ...
Aelian, after establishing that the bear was a mother who had lost her children because of hunters, details the toil and pain of being "weighed down with milk" and the "relief" the bear felt when giving suck to Atalanta. [Historical Miscellany 13. 1]. [15] Zeus also is recorded to have been suckled by bears when brought to Crete.
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 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.
According to Aelian, Aristotle said that the Pillars of Heracles (i.e. the Strait of Gibraltar) had been previously named the Pillars of Briareus. [45] Ovid , in his Metamorphoses , describes Aegaeon as a "dark-hued" sea god "whose strong arms can overpower huge whales", [ 46 ] while according to Arrian apparently, the Aegean Sea was said to ...
The Order of the Thistle is not to be confused with the Order of the Garter, which was celebrated on June 17 with a ceremony at St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle.There, the royal family wore ...
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 ...