viii THE HORSE IN HISTORY 



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Chapter III — conti?iued 



ago — Aristophanes ; Aristotle ; Athenians' fondness for 

 horse racing — Alexander the Great ; Bucephalus — Story 

 of Bucephalus ; his death — Famous painters of horses : 

 Apelles, Pauson, Micon — Mythical flesh-eating horses 

 of Diomed — Hannibal's cavalry of 12,000 horse — Coins 

 — Posidonius ; horses of the Parthians, Iberians and 

 Celtiberians : : ; j ; 45 



CHAPTER IV 



Virgil on the points of a horse — Caesar's invasion — Abolition 

 of war chariots — Precursor of the horseshoe — Nero's 

 2000 mules shod with silver ; Poppaea's shod with gold 

 — The Ossianic and Cuchulainn epic cycles ; Cuchu- 

 lainn's horses — The Iceni on Newmarket Heath ; early 

 horse racing in Britain — Horses immolated by the 

 Romans ; white horses as prognosticators — Caligula's 

 horse, Incitatus ; Celer, the horse of Verus ; the horse 

 of Belisarius : . ; s . s 67 



CHAPTER V 



Mahomet encourages horse-breeding — Procopius ; a mis- 

 statement — Early allusion to horse races — Figures of 

 horses cut on cliffs — Roland and his horse, Veillantiff — 

 Orelia, Roderick's charger — Trebizond, Alfana ; Odin's 

 mythical horse, Sleipnir — Horse fighting in Iceland — 

 Some horses of mythology : Pegasus, Selene, Xanthbs, 

 Balios, Cyllaros, Arion, Reksh — Arab pedigrees traced 

 through dams — Influence of the horse upon history — 

 Courage of Julius Caesar's horses . . .86 



PART II 



FROM THE CONQUEST TO THE STUART PERIOD 



CHAPTER I 



The Conqueror's cavalry — Horse fairs and races at Smith- 

 field — King John's foolish fad — The Persians and 



