Aelian’s On The Nature Of Animals: The Classics Can Be Fun!
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JULY 14, 2011
Thus opens the first entry in On the Nature of Animals , written by Claudius Aelianus in the days of imperial Rome, now freshly translated by Gregory McNamee and presented in an attractive, modern-looking edition by Trinity University Press. In this, despite the dubious nature of some of the anecdotes, the work on the whole succeeds.
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