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An Elephant for Aristotle

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lovingly constructed, held together only by the continuity of the central characters," leaving it "full of fascinating incident but ... an intellectual adventure rather than something that happens to real people." Miller dismisses the author's use of English dialects to represent those of ancient Greece as "an interesting gimmick, ... logical but somewhat annoying."
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take exactly this matter-of-fact view of his amazing journey, but a hero can be too self-effacing." And he feels de Camp "does not manage" to make his other characters as convincingly real. He finds its "flaw" in a plot composed "like strings of almost identical beads--separate little episodes, each
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commanders with ideas of their own about who is in charge, and a runaway Persian noblewoman. It doesn't help that the goal of the whole enterprise is essentially a malicious prank concocted by Alexander on his former teacher: he gives Aristotle the elephant but no funds for its upkeep, while sending
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called it an "engaging new historical novel," and stated that "by hybridizing a Middle-Eastern travelogue with an Alexandrine comedy of manners, the author has produced a specimen only slightly less rare than elephants in Westchester–to wit, a historical novel with a sense of humor." It highlighted
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The story is founded on the fact that Aristotle's writings include an apparently eye-witness description of an Indian elephant, though the circumstances under which he might have come into contact with such an animal are unknown.
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de Camp's endowment of each his various characters "with a particular modern accent or dialect" to "differentiate the multitude of nationalities in Alexander's empire," noting that the device "adds to the entertainment."
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called it "an amazing narrative vehicle for the display of ... a fairly complete composite of the life and times of which the author writes" and praised its "ever-freshly welling vein of humor."
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and e-book by Phoenix Pick in March 2013. It is the first of de Camp's historical novels in order of writing, and the third chronologically. It has been translated into German.
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The idea of using the travel of an elephant across different countries as the focus of a historical novel was also taken up by the well-known Portuguese writer
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called it an "engaging new novel," and pronounced that "if all books on ancient history were written with the free-flowing grace of
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in 1971. The first British edition was published by Dobson in 1966. The book was reissued with a new introduction by
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had a more negative reaction than other reviewers, contrasting de Camp unfavorably with such authors as
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and a Greek philosopher, Leon sets out to cross the whole of the ancient known world from the
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The journey is long and adventurous, involving frequent skirmishes with
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Cavendish, Henry. "Travel Book Based on Facet of Antiquity."
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Index


L. Sprague de Camp
Historical novel
Doubleday
Hardback
The Arrows of Hercules
The Bronze God of Rhodes
historical novel
L. Sprague de Camp
Doubleday
Curtis
Harry Turtledove
trade paperback
Thessalian
cavalry
Alexander the Great
elephant
Indian
Porus
Athens
Aristotle
Persian
Syrian
sutler
Indus River
Athens
bandits
Macedonian
Xenocrates

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