Elephants in Warfare in Late Antiquity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9310971 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip Rance (0000-0002-6701-6678, Belmont House, 43, St. Aubyns, BN3 2TJ Hove, East Sussex, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 355-384 |
| Publication date | 2003-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0044-5975 • E-ISSN: 1588-2543 |
| Publisher | Akadémiai Kiadó (PUBLISHER • HU) |
| DOI | 10.1556/aant.43.2003.3-4.10 |
| OpenAlex | W2142388197 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
The presence of war elephants in the Near East between the late third and early seventh centuries, and especially in Romano-Sasanian conflicts, is frequently reported in a wide variety of contemporary sources. The purpose of this paper is to examine the evidence for the military use of elephants over this period. This study gives particular attention to the literary concerns of individual authors, whether writing in Latin, Greek, Armenian, or Arabic, which might have influenced their inclusion of vivid depictions of war elephants. Informed by comparative evidence from Indian sources, this assessment also identifies a more diverse range of military applications and capabilities of elephants than in the 'classic' age of elephant warfare in the Hellenistic period
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Arabic · Armenian · Art · Linguistics · Literature · Period (music · Variety (cybernetics · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Philosophy
Elephants
Elephants
Warfare and the state
War and society
Roman Warfare with Sasanian Persia
Warfare and the state
International relations
Warfare and the state
War
Military forces
International relations
War
Battle
War and Society
War and Society
Battle
Claudius and the Elephants for Britain (Cassius Dio 60.21.2)
The role of elephants as military pack animals in the Abyssinian Campaign, 1867-1868
The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare
The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare
Animal Agency and Plutarch’s Elephants
The Sasanian Elephant Corps Revisited
Elephant forests of the Classical Mediterranean
Sixth- and Seventh-Century Elephant Ivory Finds from the Carpathian Basin
Alexander and the Elephants
Beyond the Digression
The Forgotten Reign of the Emperor Jovian (363-364)
Elephants and Kings
| Citations per year | 0.26 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1920 - 2026 (107) |
| Highly cited | No |