The Importance of Elephants in the Hellenistic World

[Fluvius Camillus]

It was a great read, thanks for sharing!

Where do you study? At Oxford, this study really seems interesting.

Anyway I have found two minor nitpick errors.

Hi Guys,

Here's another paper I wrote for my course on Hellenistic warfare, this time about elephant warfare and the logistics involved in the acquisition of elephants.

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At the Battle of Ipsos, Seleukos and Ptolemy faced their rival, Antigonos, who had, what he probably assumed, was a large force of 75 elephants to compliment his army. Antigonos would lose that day, however, as Seleukos brought to bear the 500 elephants from his Indian cession (Glover 257).

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The Battle of Raphia in many ways encapsulates the various aspects of elephant warfare, as it pitted the Asian Eephants of the Seleukids against the African Forest Elephants of the Ptolemies.

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Ptolemy was not present at the battle of Ipsos, although Ptolemy was an opponent of Antigonos, the Ptolemaic Kingdom did not partake in the battle.

And the latter was a typo.

~Fluvius