Claudius Aelianus (Ancient Greek: Κλαύδιος Αἰλιανός, Greek transliteration Kláudios Ailianós; c. 175 – c. 235 AD), commonly Aelian (/ˈiːliən/), born at...
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Troglodytae (section In Claudius Aelianus)
century CE), Josephus (37 – c. 100 CE), Tacitus (c. 56 – after 117 CE), Claudius Aelianus (c. 175 CE – c. 235 CE), Porphyry (c. 234 CE – c. 305 CE). The earlier...
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he claims to cite Herodotus, who does not mention such a number. Claudius Aelianus even alleges that Smyndirides could not sleep on a bed of rose petals...
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tradition, Hathor is regarded as his mother and sometimes as his wife. Claudius Aelianus wrote that Egyptians called the god Apollo "Horus" in their own language...
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of Apollo in Delphi exclaimed to him "You are invincible o young!" Claudius Aelianus in the Characteristics of Animals wrote that Scythians say that there...
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Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website. Claudius Aelianus, On the Characteristics of Animals, translated by Alwyn Faber Scholfield...
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in 197. Claudius Tryphoninus, a jurist during the reign of Septimius Severus. Tiberius Claudius Severus, consul in AD 200. Claudius Aelianus, a scholar...
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strong as a bull. It cannot be overcome by any weapon of steel." Claudius Aelianus (aka Aelian) in his book On the Characteristics of Animals (VII.22)...
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creature from Aethiopia, first described by Pliny the Elder and later by Claudius Aelianus. One known description of the Catoblepas is said to resemble a cape...
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animals I 14 De Natura Animalium Claudius Aelianus XVII 39. Indian apes I 15 De Natura Animalium Claudius Aelianus XVI. 41 Winged scorpions and serpents...
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(or Alcithoe), Leucippe and Arsippe (although instead of "Arsippe", Claudius Aelianus calls the latter "Aristippa", and Plutarch "Arsinoë"; Ovid uses "Leuconoe"...
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hostility to those who set foot there. The aforementioned Aelian (Claudius Aelianus, d. 235 AD) added certain other embellishments, such as its reputation...
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when Laocoön argued against bringing the Trojan Horse into Troy. Claudius Aelianus in his work On the Nature of Animals mentions a giant sea centipede...
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through barking, wore the skins of wild animals and lived by hunting. Claudius Aelianus also mentioned the dog-headed tribes in India, and he, too, wrote...
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University of Oklahoma Press, p.250. ISBN 0-8061-3212-4 Claudius Aelianus. "Various History". Claudius Aelianus His Various History. Book XII. Translated by Stanley...
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two heads in exactly the opposite manner from what it did before. — Claudius Aelianus, Characteristics of Animals The amphisbaena grows twin heads, one...
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immediately upon propitiatory sacrifices of this bird. According to Claudius Aelianus in De Natura Animalium, and Gaius Julius Solinus, both quoting much...
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Claudius Aelianus, Varia Historia translated by Thomas Stanley (d.1700) edition of 1665. Online version at the Topos Text Project. Claudius Aelianus,...
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Mainly Classical. Centennial Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-299-17710-2. Claudius Aelianus. On Animals. 14.28. Smith, William (1873). "Eros". Dictionary of Greek...
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mentioned in Book V of Athenaeus' Deipnosophistae, and in Book II of Claudius Aelianus' Varia Historia. List of speakers in Plato's dialogues Harry Neumann...
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Pausanias, 4.35.1 Pausanias, 7.4.1 Scholia on Homer, Iliad 9.584 Claudius Aelianus, On the Characteristics of Animals, translated by Alwyn Faber Scholfield...
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paradise located in the Indian Ocean mentioned by Greek writers. Claudius Aelianus wrote that there were Macedonians who settled in India in the cities...
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different, earlier accounts of events that are now lost. The historian Claudius Aelianus wrote in his Varia Historia that Tiridates died young, "barely more...
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bónasos. He also noted that the Paeonians called it μόναπος (monapos). Claudius Aelianus, writing in the late 2nd or early 3rd centuries AD, also referred...
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Claudius Aelianus, Varia Historia translated by Thomas Stanley (d.1700) edition of 1665. Online version at the Topos Text Project. Claudius Aelianus,...
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regrets as long as he could eat the delicious red mullet of Marseille. Claudius Aelianus in his On the Nature of Animals, writes that the species is sacred...
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however, was not an ordinary wrestlers' competition: according to Claudius Aelianus, rivals compared their strength in a wild Aetolian scenery, while...
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that he threatened the severest penalties for any man who slew one. Claudius Aelianus writes that there were peacocks in India, larger than anywhere else...
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für Alte Geschichte: 280. Thucydides, Peleponnesian War II, 100. Claudius Aelianus, Varia historia 12, 43. Plato. Gorgias. Plato in Twelve Volumes. Vol...
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