Claudius and the elephants for Britain (Cassius Dio 60.21.2)

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dc.contributor.authorWoods, Daviden
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-08T14:50:49Z
dc.date.available2024-01-08T14:50:49Z
dc.date.issued2023-09-04en
dc.description.abstractCharles and Singleton have explained why Cassius Dio's claim (60.21.2) that elephants were among the equipment prepared for use in Britain during the Claudian invasion of A.D. 43 is probably untrue, if one assumes that by ‘elephant’ he means the animal of that name. It is argued here that the best explanation of this apparent error is that Dio preserves a reference to a type of military machine, probably a siege-tower, rather than to the animal of this name.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationWoods, D. (2023) ‘Claudius and the elephants for Britain (Cassius Dio 60.21.2)’, Britannia, 54, pp. 321–325. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X23000399.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/s0068113x23000399en
dc.identifier.endpage325en
dc.identifier.issn0068-113Xen
dc.identifier.issn1753-5352en
dc.identifier.journaltitleBritanniaen
dc.identifier.startpage321en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/15345
dc.identifier.volume54en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofBritanniaen
dc.relation.urihttps://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X23000399en
dc.rights© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectElephantsen
dc.subjectBritainen
dc.subjectClaudiusen
dc.subjectCassius Dioen
dc.subjectSiege-toweren
dc.titleClaudius and the elephants for Britain (Cassius Dio 60.21.2)en
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
oaire.citation.volume54en
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