Claudius Aelianus (Ancient Greek: Κλαύδιος Αἰλιανός, Greek transliteration Kláudios Ailianós; c. 175 – c. 235 AD), commonly Aelian (/ˈiːliən/), born at...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website. Claudius Aelianus, On the Characteristics of Animals, translated by Alwyn Faber Scholfield...

in 197. Claudius Tryphoninus, a jurist during the reign of Septimius Severus. Tiberius Claudius Severus, consul in AD 200. Claudius Aelianus, a scholar...

by Trajan Claudius Aelianus, Roman writer of De Natura Animalium, teacher and historian of the 3rd century, who wrote in Greek Lucius Aelianus or Laelian...

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)...

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...

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...

ships, or whales to safety." Athenaeus, Deipnosofistae 283e and Claudius Aelianus, De natura animalium 15.23. Athenaeus, Deipnosofistae 284a. Watt,...

hostility to those who set foot there. The aforementioned Aelian (Claudius Aelianus, d. 235 AD) added certain other embellishments, such as its reputation...

saints Claudius Aelianus (c. 175 – c. 235), Roman author and teacher of rhetoric Claudius Gothicus, also known as Marcus Aurelius Claudius or Claudius II...

Biblotheca historica. 1.19.2 Herodotus. Histories. 2.113.1-115.1 Claudius Aelianus, De Natura Animalium, IX, 21 Stephanus of Byzantium (1849). "Θῶνις"...

when Laocoön argued against bringing the Trojan Horse into Troy. Claudius Aelianus on his work On the Nature of Animals mentions the giant sea centipede...

De Natura Animalium 10.48 Tzetzes, Chiliades 4.338 (333, scholium) Claudius Aelianus, On the Characteristics of Animals, translated by Alwyn Faber Scholfield...

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...

(or Alcithoe), Leucippe and Arsippe (although instead of "Arsippe", Claudius Aelianus calls the latter "Aristippa", and Plutarch "Arsinoë"; Ovid uses "Leuconoe"...

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...

Claudius Aelianus, Varia Historia translated by Thomas Stanley (d.1700) edition of 1665. Online version at the Topos Text Project. Claudius Aelianus,...

paradise located in the Indian Ocean mentioned by Greek writers. Claudius Aelianus wrote that there were Macedonians who settled in India in the cities...

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...

two heads in exactly the opposite manner from what it did before. — Claudius Aelianus, Characteristics of Animals The amphisbaena grows twin heads, one...

für Alte Geschichte: 280. Thucydides, Peleponnesian War II, 100. Claudius Aelianus, Varia historia 12, 43. Plato. Gorgias. Plato in Twelve Volumes. Vol...

slightly kidney-shaped. The plants are primarily root climbing vines. Claudius Aelianus (Aelian, 2-3 cc., De Natura Animalium XII.44-46, XVII.18), uses the...

however, was not an ordinary wrestlers' competition: according to Claudius Aelianus, rivals compared their strength in a wild Aetolian scenery, while...

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...

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...

historiography. The tribe was viewed of as "extremely barbaric".[page needed] Claudius Aelianus and other writers[who?] wrote that they bathed only three times in...