Pliny the Elder on Elephants
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https://doi.org/10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2021.07.07Keywords:
Roman literature, zoology, Pliny the Elder, elephants, stoicismAbstract
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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