Aelian
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Aelian or Aelianus may refer to:
- Aelianus TacticusAelianus TacticusAelianus Tacticus was a Greek military writer of the 2nd century, resident at Rome.Aelian's military treatise in fifty-three chapters on the tactics of the Greeks, titled "On Tactical Arrays of the Greeks" , is dedicated to Hadrian, though this is probably a mistake for Trajan, and the date 106...
, Greek military writer of the 2nd century, who lived in Rome - Casperius AelianusCasperius AelianusCasperius Aelianus, who served as Praetorian Prefect under the emperors Domitian and Nerva, was a Praetorian Prefect loyal to the Roman Emperor Domitian, the last of the Flavian dynasty...
, Praetorian Prefect, executed by Trajan - Claudius AelianusClaudius AelianusClaudius Aelianus , often seen as just Aelian, born at Praeneste, was a Roman author and teacher of rhetoric who flourished under Septimius Severus and probably outlived Elagabalus, who died in 222...
, Roman teacher and historian of the 3rd century, who wrote in Greek - Lucius Aelianus, one of the thirty tyrants under the Roman empire
- Aelianus MecciusAelianus MecciusAelianus Meccius was an ancient physician, who must have lived in the 2nd century BC, as he is mentioned by Galen as the oldest of his tutors. His father is supposed to have also been a physician, as Aelianus is said by Galen to have made an epitome of his father's anatomical writings...
, ancient Greek physician, tutor of Galen - Tiberius Plautius Silvanus AelianusTiberius Plautius Silvanus AelianusTiberius Plautius Silvanus Aelianus was a patrician who twice served as consul, in 45 and 74 AD. He was the adopted nephew of Plautia Urgulanilla, first wife of the emperor Claudius. It is known he offered up the prayer as pontifex when the first stone of the new Capitol was laid in 70 AD...
, adopted nephew of Plautia Urgulanilla, first wife of Claudius; consul 45 and 74 AD - Aelianus (rebel)Aelianus (rebel)Aelianus was together with Amandus the leader of an insurrection of Gallic peasants, called Bagaudae, in the reign of Diocletian. It was put down by the Caesar Maximianus Herculius in 285....
, leader of the Bagaudae peasant rebels