Published: 2021-06-29

Pliny the Elder on Elephants

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Abstract

As a point of departure, article presents the Stoic understanding of human-animal relationships: the Stoic philosophers presupposed
human dominance over other creatures, which excluded the norms of justice as a means of limiting the human hegemony. On the basis of an excerpt from Pliny’s Natural History, which recounts a story of elephants, Tomasz Sapota examines the extent to which Pliny accepted this view of the Stoics.

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Sapota, T. (2021). Pliny the Elder on Elephants. Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies, (1 (7), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2021.07.07

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No. 1 (7) (2021)
Published: 2021-09-28


ISSN: 2719-2687
eISSN: 2451-3849
Ikona DOI 10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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