[publicclassics] Ailianos, Life of Animals

[Kai Brodersen]

Ailianos (Claudius Aelianus, ca. 165-225 AD) created an extensive work 
on the Life of Animals. The author shows us what his contemporaries 
found remarkable in animals: We meet mosquitoes and elephants as well as 
lovesick fish and wondrous unicorns.
The work is also a "quarry" for quotes from ancient literature which is 
lost otherwise. Above all, though, it is a treasure trove of animal 
stories that not only appeal to a reading public interested in 
antiquity, but also to animal lovers everywhere.

A new bilingual edition, for the first time based on the new 2009 
Teubner text, has now been published by De Gruyter both in print and as 
an ebook (which may well be included in your libraries' subscription 
anyway).

Kai Brodersen: Ailianos, Tierleben. Greek and German. Berlin & Boston: 
De Gruyter 2018. 864 pp.
https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/506719