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On the Characteristics of Animals, Volume I, Books 1-5 1 by Aelian; with an English translation by A. F. Scholfield is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><b>Occasionally zany zoological lore.</b><br> <br> Aelian (Claudius Aelianus), a Roman born ca. AD 170 at Praeneste, was a pupil of the rhetorician Pausanias of Caesarea, and taught and practiced rhetoric. Expert in Attic Greek, he became a serious scholar and studied history under the patronage of the Roman empress Julia Domna. He apparently spent all his life in Italy where he died after AD 230.<br> <br> Aelian's <i>On the Characteristics of Animals</i>, in 17 books, is a collection of fact
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- Author
- Aelian; with an English translation by A. F. Scholfield
- Publisher
- W. Heinemann ; Harvard University Press
- Published
- 1958
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674994935
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Science, Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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