An Elephant for Aristotle

An Elephant for Aristotle
Dust-jacket illustration for first edition
AuthorL. Sprague de Camp
Cover artistAlice Smith
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistorical novel
Published1958 Doubleday
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pages360
Preceded byThe Arrows of Hercules 
Followed byThe Bronze God of Rhodes 

An Elephant for Aristotle is a 1958 historical novel by American writer L. Sprague de Camp. It was first published in hardback by Doubleday, and in paperback by Curtis in 1971. The first British edition was published by Dobson in 1966. The book was reissued with a new introduction by Harry Turtledove as a trade paperback 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.