THE ELEPHANT IN THE GREEK AND ROMAN WORLD.
Pp. 288, 24 plates, text figures and maps, appendix, notes, index; demy 8vo; khaki cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, edges of boards lightly rubbed; dust wrapper, slightly soiled; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, small ink mark near bottom edge of upper free endpaper, the endpapers faintly offset, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Thames and Hudson, London, 1974. First edition. Aspects of Greek and Roman Life series. *Examines the knowledge and use of the elephant in the classical world. 'Starting with the natural history of the animal the author then assesses the references to it in Ctesias, Aristotle and other early writers. The elephant's major role was in war, especially in Hellenistic times under Alexander the Great and his successors; then the Carthaginians and not least Hannibal, put elephants at the head of their war effort against the growing ascendancy of Rome' [wrapper blurb]. Item #182485
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