Bibliography

While many of the works I used in my research are available in print, they are even more readily available on the internet.  Where I used a print source that is also available via URL, I will list the URL, as some of these sources are hard to find in libraries.

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Aelian. Scholfield, A. F. Translator. On the Nature of Animals. http://www.attalus.org/translate/animals4.html#52 1958

Aristotle, The History of Animals. Translated by D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson. http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/history_anim.2.ii.html

Arun, Joan. Editor.  Art of the First Cities. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2003

Aruz, Joan, “Reflections on Fantastic Beasts of the Hrappan World.” Walking with the Unicorn, Archaeopress, Oxford. 2018 pages 26-32.

Bacci, Andrea L’Alicorno. https://www.classicistranieri.com/andrea-bacci-lalicorno-pdf.html I used the translation, found here: http://www.attalus.org/translate/animals4.html by A.F.Scholfield (1958) Paragraph 53

Beer, Rüdiger Robert. Unicorn Myth and Reality. James J. Kerry Inc. New York, 1977

Beneditti, Giocomo “Which Animal was the Unicorn of the Indus Seals?” New Indology. 2014. http://new-indology.blogspot.com/2014/03/which-animal-was-unicorn-of-indus-seals.html

Benedetti, Giacomo. “The Story of Ekaśṛṅga in the Mahāvastu with its parallels”. Journal of Asian Civilizations. Vol. 38 No. 1. July 2015 http://www.academia.edu/30448353/The_story_of_Eka%C5%9B%E1%B9%9B%E1%B9%85ga_in_the_Mah%C4%81vastu_with_its_parallels

Berlin, Adele and Brettler, Marc Zvi. Editors. The Jewish Study Bible. Jewish Publication Society. Tanakh Translation. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004.

Betz, Hans Dieter. "Fragments from a Catabasis Ritual in a Greek Magical Papyrus", History of Religions 19,4 (May 1980):287-295

Black, Jeremy and Green, Anthony. Gods, Demons, and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia. University of Texas Press, Austin.  1992

Brown, Robert. The Unicorn, A Mythological Investigation. https://www.sacred-texts.com/etc/tu/index.htm

Bunt, C. (1930). The Lion and the Unicorn. Antiquity, 4(16), 425-437

Caesar, C.J. De Bello Gallico. Project Gutenberg; Everyman’s Library version, 1915 edition, translated by W.A. MacDevitt. http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10657/pg10657-images.html

Caspers, E. C. L. During. “The Indus Valley 'Unicorn': A Near Eastern Connection?” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, vol. 34, no. 4, 1991, pp. 312–350. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3632455.

Cowie, Ashley. “Legends of the Unicorn Horn: cures, antidotes, and medicinal magic”. Ancient Origins. 2018. https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/magic-unicorn-horn-0010750

Curley, Michael, translator. Physiologus: A Medieval Book of Nature Lore. University of Chicago Press, 2009. https://books.google.com/books?id=I3tUyc7vVlAC&pg=PA51&lpg=PA51&dq=Physiologus+unicorn+online&source=bl&ots=pkxrxcH0Ck&sig=ACfU3U0geSfde2ESJ92h-6nVEmo3hPF7dQ&hl=en&ppis=_e&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi8_9bR1I7oAhXghXIEHX5dAQcQ6AEwBXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Physiologus%20unicorn%20online&f=false

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Edwards, C.J.; Magee, D.A.; Park, S.D.E.; McGettigan, P.A.; Lohan, A.J.; et al. (2010). "A Complete Mitochondrial Genome Sequence from a Mesolithic Wild Aurochs (Bos primigenius)"". PLoS ONE. 5 (2): e9255. Bibcode:2010PLoSO...5.9255E. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009255. PMC 2822870. PMID 20174668

Elsafeed, Essam; Khalifa, Hoda. “A Comparative Study of Modified Animal Horns in Ancient Egypt and Modern African Tribes.” Geography, 2017.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/aaa4/21ade601c150cfffd51a258c967c45d660f6.pdf

Elmer G. Suhr Source: Folklore, Vol. 75, No. 2 (Summer, 1964), pp. 91-109 Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. on behalf of Folklore Enterprises, Ltd. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1258042 Accessed: 19-05-2020 01:52 UTC

Elsafeed, Essam; Khalifa, Hoda. “A Comparative Study of Modified Animal Horns in Ancient Egypt and Modern African Tribes.” Geography, 2017.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/aaa4/21ade601c150cfffd51a258c967c45d660f6.pdf

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Ettinghausen, Richard. The Unicorn: Studies in Muslim Iconography. Freer Gallery of Art. 1950  https://archive.org/details/unicorn00etti/mode/2up

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Fischer, Louis-Paul; Fischer Véronique Cossu Ferra. “La licorne et la corne de licorne chez les apothicaires et les Médecins”. Historie Des Sciences Medicales, Tome XLV No. 3. 2011.

https://www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr/sfhm/hsm/HSMx2011x045x003/HSMx2011x045x003x0265.pdf

Freeman, Margaret. The Unicorn Tapestries.  Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1976. https://books.google.com/books?id=ATbO6lv4LsMC&pg=PA57&lpg=PA57&dq=Chastity+and+the+unicorn&source=bl&ots=uBXofrGR-m&sig=ACfU3U0GACWxHcAojcfPy6YRsZAJFXYNQQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwix9Jmns8ngAhWis1kKHQNaBBo4FBDoATAHegQIARAB#v

Frenez, Dennys; Jamison, Gregg; Law, Randall; Vidale, Massimo; Measdow, Richard. Walking with the Unicorn, social organization and material culture in ancient south Asia. Archaeopress Publishing, Oxford.  2018

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Leibowitz, Rachel “Art History’s 8 Greatest Unicorns from Met Tapestries to Damien Hirst’s Taxidermy”. Artsy. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-art-historys-8-greatest-unicorns-met-tapestries-damien-hirsts-taxidermy

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