""Praefatio""; ""I. De codicibus""; ""II. Editiones ante nostram prolatae""; ""IV. De nostro apparatu critico""; ""V. De capitulorum ordine""; ""Conspectus siglorum""; ""Conspectus librorum""; ""De natura animalium""; ""Prooemium""; ""Liber I"";...
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""Praefatio""; ""I. De codicibus""; ""II. Editiones ante nostram prolatae""; ""IV. De nostro apparatu critico""; ""V. De capitulorum ordine""; ""Conspectus siglorum""; ""Conspectus librorum""; ""De natura animalium""; ""Prooemium""; ""Liber I""; ""Liber II""; ""Liber III""; ""Liber IV""; ""Liber V""; ""Liber VI""; ""Liber VII""; ""Liber VIII""; ""Liber IX""; ""Liber X""; ""Liber XI""; ""Liber XII""; ""Liber XIII""; ""Liber XIV""; ""Liber XV""; ""Liber XVI""; ""Liber XVII""; ""Epilogus""; ""Appendix""; ""Errata in editione Hercheriana (1864)""; ""Tabula comparationis""; ""Indices"" Frontmatter --HOC VOLVMINE CONTINENTVR --PRAEFATIO --CONSPECTVS SIGLORVM --CONSPECTVS LIBRORVM --PROOEMIVM. LIBER I --LIBER II --LIBER III --LIBER IV --LIBER V --LIBER VI --LIBER VII --LIBER VIII --LIBER IX --LIBER Χ --LIBER XI --LIBER XII --LIBER XIII --LIBER XIV --LIBER XV --LIBER XVI --LIBER XVII --EPILOGVS --APPENDIX --INDEX NOMINVM --INDEX ANIMALIVM PLANTARVM LAPIDVM METALLORVM. This book is a new critical edition of Aelian's seventeen books on De natura animalium, a work of a Roman author writing in Greek, which leads us to the world of late Greco-Roman culture and thought. This is an important work for scholars interested in zoology, animals' habits and behaviour, Stoic Philosophy, Medieval bestiaries backgrounds, and Greek language of Late Antiquity. In Aelian's own words, he aims to collect all material about animals´ habits and behaviour. Aelians' deep stoicism emerges from the text in a peculiar didactic and moralistic tone