Aelianus Tacticus, 2nd-century Greek military writer in Rome
Casperius Aelianus (13–98 AD), Praetorian Prefect, executed 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 (died 269), one of the thirty tyrants under the Roman empire
Aelianus Meccius, 2nd-century Greek physician, tutor of Galen
Tiberius Plautius Silvanus Aelianus, adopted nephew of Plautia Urgulanilla, first wife of Claudius; consul 45 and 74 AD
Aelian (rebel) (fl. 285), leader of the Bagaudae peasant rebels
Aelianus (comes), leader of the Roman defensive forces at the Siege of Amida in 359
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Aelian or Aelianus may refer to: Aelianus Tacticus, 2nd-century Greek military writer in Rome Casperius Aelianus (13–98 AD), Praetorian Prefect, executed...
Greek transliteration Kláudios Ailianós; c. 175 – c. 235 AD), commonly Aelian (/ˈiːliən/), born at Praeneste, was a Roman author and teacher of rhetoric...
Τακτικός; fl. 2nd century AD), also known as Aelian (/ˈiːliən/), was a Greek military writer who lived in Rome. Aelian's military treatise in fifty-three chapters...
love, or drowned. She was drowned. Aelian says that Phaon was killed by a man whom he was cuckolding. Aside from Aelian, Phaon's story is told by Ovid and...
§55; Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi, 8.7.; Aelian, Varia Historia, 13.28. Laërtius 1925, §21; Aelian, Varia Historia, 10.16.; Jerome, Adversus Jovinianum...
filled with honey, which was in turn placed in a gold casket. According to Aelian, a seer called Aristander foretold that the land where Alexander was laid...
flaming pigs were recorded by the Greek military writer Polyaenus and by Aelian. Both writers reported that Antigonus II Gonatas' siege of Megara in 266...
down the cliff, called by the Greeks the water of the Styx. According to Aelian, Demeter caused the water of this Arcadian Styx "to well up in the neighbourhood...
history by various writers, including Ctesias, Strabo, Pliny the Younger, Aelian, and Cosmas Indicopleustes. The Bible also describes an animal, the re'em...
witness. Natural Histories that studied bears were recorded by Aristotle, Aelian, Pliny and Oppian and were probably based on their first hand accounts or...
an anecdote in On the Nature of Animals by the Greek writer Aelian (2nd century AD). Aelian relates that Gilgamesh's grandfather kept his mother under...
Apollodorus, he was the offspring of Typhon. In another tradition, told by Aelian (citing Epimenides) and Hyginus, the lion was "sprung from" the moon-goddess...
that only gave them capability of short-distanced flight. Writers after Aelian (3rd century AD) did not add new material to griffin lore, except for the...
III, 54 Aelian, On The Characteristics Of Animals 2.21 Aelian, On The Characteristics Of Animals 6.21 Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 6.21 Aelian, On Animals...
reported by the Roman orator Aelian (c. 175–c. 235) in his Miscellaneous History, which was written entirely in Greek. Aelian's story closely resembles the...
Gauls who had sacked Rome in the 4th century BC (see Battle of the Allia). Aelian, Diodorus Siculus and Stephen of Byzantium all recorded important ancient...
punished them by changing them into bats, and their work into vines. Plutarch, Aelian, and Antoninus Liberalis, though with some differences in the detail, relate...
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