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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 ...
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, 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.
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).
War pigs are pigs reported to have been used in ancient warfare as military animals.In combat, they were mostly employed as a countermeasure against war elephants.. Historical accounts of incendiary pigs or flaming pigs were recorded by the Greek military writer Polyaenus [1] and by Aelian. [2]
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
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 ...
Cohors PrimÆ Ælia Dacorvm (Latin name for "1st Aelian Cohort of Dacians") was an infantry regiment of the Auxilia corps of the Imperial Roman army. It was first raised by the Roman emperor Hadrian (r. AD 117–38) in the Roman province of Dacia not later than AD 125 and its last surviving record dates c. 400.