Collection of Marvellous Things

A magical mystery tour of the ancient world by the Roman author Solinus. This is the first modern English language translation, with introduction and notes. Solinus takes the reader on a tour of the known world of his time (early third century AD) and on the way we meet unicorns, men ‘transformed into wolves’, deer which swallow snakes after ‘dragging them out of their lairs’ by the force of their breath, serpents with four horns, hyaenas which ‘imitate the sound of people vomiting’, men wi...