Man and animal in Severan Rome: the literary imagination of Claudius Aelianus

Abstract

Introduction. Approaching the De natura animalium 1. The independent intellectual 2. Animals and agroikoi in Aelian's Rustic Letters 3. The hazards of variety 4. The Hellenized Roman 5. Stoicism 6. Animals, divinity, and myth 7. Egypt and India 8. The sexual animal 9. Bees, lions, eagles: Aelian and kingship 10. After animals: the women of the Varia Historia Conclusion. 'Nature produces animals with many voices and many sounds, you might say ...' Appendix: reconstructing Aelian's Kategoria tou Gunnidos.

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