Fauna wyspy Taprobane i Oceanu Indyjskiego w relacji Klaudiusza Eliana (NA XVI 17–18)

Elwira Kaczyńska

doi:10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2024.14.07

Published: 2024-09-06

No. 2 (14) (2024)

Fauna of the Island of Taprobane and the Indian Ocean in the Account of Claudius Aelianus (NA XVI 17–18)

Elwira Kaczyńska

Section: ARTICLES

https://doi.org/10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2024.14.07

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The text comprises an annotated Polish translation of two consecutive chapters of Claudius Aelianus’ De natura animalium (XVI 17–18), devoted to the island of Sri Lanka (in ancient times called Taprobana, later Ceylon). Chapter XVI 17 describes the great marine turtles, i.e. the leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea Vandelli), massively killed by the local people. Chapter XVI 18 features the great Ceylon elephants (Elephas maximus maximus L.), as well as marine monsters that live in the Indian Ocean. The concise description of the coastal dugong (Dugong dugon Müller), contained in this chapter, is the only surviving evidence of the knowledge of this animal preserved in Geco-Roman literature.

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Ceylon , dugongs , Ceylon elephants , leatherback turtles , Indian Ocean , sea animals

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Kaczyńska, E. (2024). Fauna of the Island of Taprobane and the Indian Ocean in the Account of Claudius Aelianus (NA XVI 17–18). Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies, (2 (14), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2024.14.07

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Elwira Kaczyńska

elwira.kaczynska@uni.lodz.pl
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4545-1927

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University of Lodz Poland

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Elwira Kaczyńska – D.Sc., Prof. UL, employed as an associate professor in the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Lodz (Poland), two-time scholarship holder of the Foundation for Polish Science (2001, 2002), author of over 140 scientific publications. Scientific career: M.A. (1996), Ph.D. (2000), D.Sc. (2013), Prof. UL (2016). In 2022 she received team award of the Rector of University of Lodz for the series of publications entitled Studies on animal terminology. E-mail: elwira.kaczynska@uni.lodz.pl.

No. 2 (14) (2024)
Published: 2024-12-13

ISSN: 2719-2687

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Fauna of the Island of Taprobane and the Indian Ocean in the Account of Claudius Aelianus (NA XVI 17–18)

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