Historical Miscellany

Aelian

Translated by Nigel G. Wilson

    Classicists no longer have an excuse not to check a citation in Aelian, and a general reader who wants to find out what a bedside book from antiquity might have looked like has the means ready to hand...Aelian's Greek can be quite tricky and with his translation Wilson puts us further in his debt: besides being clear and accurate it is often sprightly and even eloquent.
       --A. J. Podlecki, Scholia

    Aelian's Historical Miscellany (Varia Historia) is mainly a potpourri of historical, literary, and other information concerning the Greek past...which apparently entertained educated readers [of the 3rd century] as well as provided them with exempla. Wilson gives us a smooth and very readable translation, syntactically reflecting Aelian's 'studied simplicity.'"
       --Robert J. Penella, Religious Studies Review

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N. G. Wilson is Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Lincoln College, Oxford University.