Steven D. Smith (New York Hofstra University)

Man and Animal in Severan Rome

The Literary Imagination of Claudius Aelianus

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Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that Aelian's important work on animals, the De natura animalium, represents a sophisticated literary critique of Severan Rome. His fascination with animals reflects the cultural issues of his day: philosophy, religion, the exoticism of Egypt and India, sex, gender, and imperial politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 634g
• ISBN-13: 9781107033986
• ISBN-10: 1107033985
• Artikelnr.: 40603229

Autorenporträt

Steven D. Smith is Associate Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Hofstra University, New York. He is the author of Greek Identity and the Athenian Past in Chariton: The Romance of Empire (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

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 Katêgoria tou Gunnidos.