11-14-2007, 09:59 PM
Oh yes, Xanthippus gets a few pages at Bagradas along with the inept Regulus. I suspect that Xanthippus was there in Sparta when Pyrrhus attacked, and perhaps worked with Pyrrhus' captured elephants upon Pyrrhus' death just a week later.
Quote:Quote:I believe that the only time elephants ever appeared in the region of Sparta was when Pyrrhus ...
This is true, though it was in support of the would-be Spartan usurper and adventurer Cleonymus. Perhaps the most effective employment of elephants was that of a Spartan who may well have been one of the young men left to face Pyrrus by flower of the Spartan army which had deployed in Crete- Xanthippus.
Do you cover him and Bagradas extensively in your book?
John Kistler
writer, businessman, elephant lover
writer, businessman, elephant lover
