CONTENTS 

 PART I 



FROM VERY EARLY TIMES TO THE CONQUEST 

 CHAPTER I 



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Rameses ; early Egyptian chariots — Horses of Babylon 

 and of Libya — Erichthonius ; horse of Job ; horses of 

 Solomon — Early circus riding — Dancing horses of the 

 Sybarites ; the Crotonians' stratagem — Homer's " Iliad" ; 

 Menesthus ; early wagering — Patroclus ; Achilles ; 

 Euphorbus ; Hyperenor — Horses and chariots of the 

 Thracians — Ancient Greeks and horsemanship ; de- 

 cline in the popularity of war chariots ; inauguration of 

 cavalry — Xenophon on horsemanship — White horses . I 



CHAPTER II 



Increasing interest in horses — Herodotus ; Thucydides ; 

 war chariots of the Persians — Horses represented on 

 coinage — Wooden horse of Troy — The Parthenon frieze ; 

 Greek art — Plato ; white horses — The procession of 

 Xerxes ; horses and men sacrificed — The horse of 

 Darius — Horse racing introduced among the Romans 

 — Xenophon and Simo — Early horseshoes, bits and 

 bitting ; ancient methods of mounting . : . 23 



CHAPTER III 



Xenophon disliked the " American " seat — Cavalry organised 

 by the Athenians — Cost of horses twenty-three centuries 



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