---
name: Aelian of Praeneste
name_greek: Κλαύδιος Αἰλιανός
eul_aid: ria
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/authors/aelian-of-praeneste-ria"
period: Roman
dialect: Koine
affiliation: Sophist
works_count: 4
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Aelian of Praeneste

*Κλαύδιος Αἰλιανός*

**eul_aid:** `ria` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/authors/aelian-of-praeneste-ria)

Claudius Aelianus, a Roman sophist writing in Greek. Surviving works include orations and miscellanies. Free to download from the Greek library archive.

## Works

- [Excerpts](https://eulogikon.org/works/aelian-praeneste-excerpts-ria-ad) — *Ἀποσπασμάτια* · `ria-ad`
- [From Aelian's Rustic Letters](https://eulogikon.org/works/aelian-praeneste-rustic-letters-ria-aa) — *ἐκ τῶν Αἰλιανοῦ ἀγροικικῶν ἐπιστολῶν* · `ria-aa`
- [On the Nature of Animals](https://eulogikon.org/works/aelian-praeneste-nature-animals-ria-ab) — *Περὶ ζῴων ἰδιότητος* · `ria-ab`
- [Varied History](https://eulogikon.org/works/aelian-praeneste-varied-history-ria-ac) — *Ποικίλη ἱστορία* · `ria-ac`

## License and provenance

Eulogikon publishes public-domain Greek texts in cleaned, structured, readable form and makes no copyright claim over that preparation (Public Domain Mark 1.0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/). Author records and the underlying corpus are at https://eulogikon.org/.