Editing Manticore (section)

=== Legacy ===
Ctesias purportedly saw a martichora presented to the Persian king by the Indians.<ref name="aelian"/> The Romanised Greek [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] was skeptical and considered it an unreliable exaggerated account of a [[tiger]].<ref name="pausanias"/><ref name="robinson"/>  [[Apollonius of Tyana]] also dismissed the mantichore as a tall tale, according to the biography by [[Flavius Philostratus|Philostratus]] (c. 170–247).<ref name="philostratus"/>{{sfnp|Nigg|1999|p=79}}

Pliny did not share Pausanias' skepticism.<ref name="robinson"/> And for 1500 years afterwards, it was Pliny's account, also copied by [[Gaius Julius Solinus|Solinus]] (2nd century), which was held to be authoritative on matters of natural history whether real or mythological.<ref name="robinson"/> In the advent of Christianity, writings in the Holy Scripture combined with Plinian-Aristotelian learning gave rise to the ''[[Physiologus]]'' (also c. 2nd century), which later evolved into the medieval [[bestiary|bestiaries]]<ref name="robinson"/> some of which contained entries on the manticore.