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Glosa and references of the book «Fourteen Byzantine Rulers» (Cronografía), by Miguel Psellos, including a vocabulary into Spanish.

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Glosa and references of the book «Fourteen Byzantine Rulers» ( Cronografía ), by Miguel Psellos, (Robert Sewter trans.), with a vocabulary into Spanish     Biographical References (From Wikipedia ) Claudius Aelianus. (Κλαύδιος Αἰλιανός; c. 175 – c. 235 AD), commonly Aelian (/ˈiːliən/), born at Praeneste, was a Roman author and teacher of rhetoric who flourished under Septimius Severus and probably outlived Elagabalus, who died in 222. He spoke Greek so fluently that he was called "honey-tongued" (μελίγλωσσος meliglossos); Roman-born, he preferred Greek authors, and wrote in a slightly archaizing Greek himself. His two chief works are valuable for the numerous quotations from the works of earlier authors, which are otherwise lost, and for the surprising lore, which offers unexpected glimpses into the Greco-Roman world-view. Agesilaus II. (/əˌdʒɛsəˈleɪəs/; Greek: Ἀγησίλαος Agesilaos; c. 444/443 – c. 360 BC), was a king (basileus) of the ancient Greek city-state ...