Claudius Aelianus
Roman author and teacher (c.175-c.235) · Italy · Writers · Lived 200 to 235 · aged 35
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Something wrong?A Roman who wrote only in Greek - so well they called him "honey-tongued" - and left behind two books packed with lost quotations and strange lore that crack open how the ancient world actually thought.
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Born around 175 AD in Praeneste, Claudius Aelianus made his living teaching rhetoric in Rome but turned his back on Latin entirely, writing in a slightly old-fashioned Greek that earned him the nickname meliglossos. He flourished under Septimius Severus and likely lived past the murder of Elagabalus in 222. His major works became accidental archives: they preserved fragments of earlier writers whose books didn't survive and collected the kind of odd beliefs and animal tales that reveal what educated Romans actually thought the world contained. One of those works, De Natura Animalium, holds the only mention of Gilgamesh in all of Greco-Roman literature. He died around 235, leaving behind a catalog of the ancient imagination in a language that wasn't his own.
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