18 THE HORSE. 



used for war or amusement. The monu- 

 ments and wall paintings which have 

 been left to posterity by aneient Greece, 

 afford us only slight assistance in our 

 The size of attempt to determine the size of horse 



the ancient 



Grecian horse, ^hich was in the habit of performing at 

 Olympia, Cythia, and Isthmia. In an 

 Etruscan graveyard a wall-painting was 

 discovered which represents horses har- 

 nessed to chariots, about to enter the 

 hippodrome, in which the horses are 

 much larger than the vehicles, in fact, 

 are out of all proportion with them, and 

 so are many horses and carriages simi- 

 larly depicted by Greek artists. 



The sculptors of the period produced 

 statues of horses, which were conspi- 

 cuous for their beauty of design and 

 correct anatomical delineation, which 



