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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 3669712, member: 101855&quot;]A few comments and questions</p><p><br /></p><p>Somehow it seems odd to me that a culture would be pleased having it represented by a snake instead of an elephant. A snake is sneaky, slithery, stupid and sometimes poisonous. It’s long been associated with something that is not to be trusted. Was the Roman attitude toward them that much different?</p><p><br /></p><p>An elephant is view as majestic, powerful, intelligent and useful, although that might not have been as much case in Rome because of the species they had available.</p><p><br /></p><p>Did the Romans have access to the Asian variety of elephant or only the African kind? The African elephant is larger, but it’s also very uncontrollable. The elephants we see in zoos and for sure performing tricks are Asian elephants.</p><p><br /></p><p>P.T. Barnum had a huge African elephant named Jumbo that was, I think, 12 feet tall. Jumbo was so unpredictable that that he had to be in cage when they took him out for the circus parade. What did or could the Romans do with African elephants?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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