08-29-2007, 09:27 AM
A question from a friend who is preparing an article on a graffito from Cairo showing a ship used for the transport of elephants:
She has always understood that elephants were usually misemployed. The big animals were only useful if the commander knew how to use them, and generals appear to have been extremely inapt in the use of elephants. Can anybody confirm this? Which (modern) author has written about this subject?
I know about H. H. Scullard's The Elephant in the Greek and Roman World, but have never read it, nor seen a copy.
She has always understood that elephants were usually misemployed. The big animals were only useful if the commander knew how to use them, and generals appear to have been extremely inapt in the use of elephants. Can anybody confirm this? Which (modern) author has written about this subject?
I know about H. H. Scullard's The Elephant in the Greek and Roman World, but have never read it, nor seen a copy.
