en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Cultural_depictions_ofCultural depictions of salamanders - Wikipedia Classical lore: Pliny, the Talmud, and Augustine. The salamander was clearly known to the Ancient Greeks by the 4th century BCE, since both Aristotle (384–322 BCE) and his successor Theophrastus (c. 371–c. 287 BCE) refer to the σαλαμάνδρα (salamandra). Theophrastus in particular refers to it as a lizard ("saura") whose emergence ...