Hannibal is rather well associated with elephants, one would imagine he had
a similar source for elephants too!


>>> David Evans <[log in to unmask]> 04/20 11:46 am >>>
While not impossible it does sound improbable there may well have been north
african elephants still by this time certainly elephants had a much wider
range then.

>>> [log in to unmask] 20/April/2001 11:29am >>>
Manda Scott wrote
> I read a book recently (and can't find the title or author just now -
> sorry) which gave what, to me, seemed plausible evidence that Caesar
> had brought elephants in the second of his campaigns, largely because
> he could and it was designed to piss off the senator who had taken
> the trouble to bring them from Africa.

A pedantic (and possibly inaccurate) point here. I remember being told once
that it was impossible to train African elephants, only the Indian variety.
If this is true, does this not indicate that the Roman elephants would have
been imported from the east rather than Africa?

Dave Carter.



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