About this Item\n\nThe item is a book Hardback\nThe Author Name is Aelian\nThe Title is Historical Miscellany : No. 486\n\nCondition New\n\nOther Comments\nNew Store Stock\nCategory - History\n\nProduct Description -\nAelian's Historical Miscellany is a pleasurable example of light reading for Romans of the early third century. Offering engaging anecdotes about historical figures, retellings of legendary events, and descriptive pieces - in sum: amusement, information, and variety - Aelian's collection of nuggets and narratives could be enjoyed by a wide reading public. A rather similar book had been published in Latin in the previous century by Aulus Gellius Aelian is a late, perhaps the last, representative of what had been a very popular genre. Here then are anecdotes about the famous Greek philosophers, poets, historians, and playwrights myths instructively retold moralizing tales about heroes and rulers, athletes and wise men reports about styles in dress, foods and drink, lo4