An Elephant for Aristotle
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| An Elephant for Aristotle | |
 Dust-jacket illustration for An Elephant for Aristotle |
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| Author | L. Sprague deCamp |
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| Cover artist | Alice Smith |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Historical novel |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
| Publication date | 1958 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 360 pp |
An Elephant for Aristotle, is a 1958 historical novel by L. Sprague de Camp. It was first published in hardback by Doubleday, and in paperback by Curtis in 1971. It is the first of de Camp's historical novels in order of writing, and third chronologically.
The novel concerns the adventures of a Thessalian cavalry commander who has been tasked by Alexander the Great to bring an elephant captured from an Indian ruler, Porus, to Athens as a present for Alexander's old tutor, Aristotle.
The journey is long and adventurous, involving frequent skirmishes with bandits, unruly noblemen, Macedonian commanders with ideas of their own about who's in charge, and a runaway Persian noblewoman.
[edit] References
- Laughlin, Charlotte; Daniel J. H. Levack (1983). De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller, 51.
| Preceded by The Arrows of Hercules |
Historical novels of L. Sprague de Camp An Elephant for Aristotle |
Succeeded by The Bronze God of Rhodes |
