Editing Elephantis (section)

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'''Elephantis''' ({{langx|grc|Ἐλεφαντίς}}) (fl. late 1st century BC) was a [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] poet and physician renowned in the classical world as the author of a notorious [[sex manual]].<ref name=Ogilvie>{{cite book|last=Ogilvie|first=Marilyn Bailey|title=Women in science : antiquity through the nineteenth century : a biographical dictionary with annotated bibliography|url=https://archive.org/details/womeninscience00mari|url-access=registration|year=1986|publisher=MIT Press|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|isbn=026265038X|edition=Reprint.}}</ref> Due to the popularity of courtesans taking animal names in classical times, it is likely Elephantis is two or more persons of the same name.<ref name=Ogilvie/>  [[Lost literary work|None of her works have survived]], though they are referenced in other ancient texts.