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Man and Animal in Severan Rome - The Literary Imagination of Claudius Aelianus (Hardcover)
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Man and Animal in Severan Rome - The Literary Imagination of Claudius Aelianus (Hardcover)
Series: Greek Culture in the Roman World
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The Roman sophist Claudius Aelianus, born in Praeneste in the late
second century CE, spent his career cultivating a Greek literary
persona. Aelian was a highly regarded writer during his own
lifetime, and his literary compilations would be influential for a
thousand years and more in the Roman world. This book argues that
the De natura animalium, a miscellaneous treasury of animal lore
and Aelian's greatest work, is a sophisticated literary critique of
Severan Rome. Aelian's fascination with animals reflects the
cultural issues of his day: philosophy, religion, the exoticism of
Egypt and India, sex, gender, and imperial politics. This study
also considers how Aelian's interests in the De natura animalium
are echoed in his other works, the Rustic Letters and the Varia
Historia. Himself a prominent figure of mainstream Roman Hellenism,
Aelian refined his literary aesthetic to produce a reading of
nature that is both moral and provocative.
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