ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS. l6l 



admired for the grace, action, and truth to nature 

 of its figures. The horses seem to illustrate exactly 

 the type preferred by Xenophon in his first chapter 

 (see also p. 89). For the costume of the riders 

 see the remarks on p. 163. 



Page 41. Fragment of a sixth-century monu- 

 ment in honour of an Athenian warrior of a time 

 much earlier than the Persian wars. From " Die 

 Attischen Grabreliefs," Conze, i, taf. 9. The 

 original is in the Barracco collection in Rome ; 

 Conze took his engraving from a cast in Stras- 

 burg. The complete work was a tall, narrow stele, 

 like the well-known stele of Aristion. On the 

 upper part was represented the dead man, armed 

 probably as a hoplite ; only his feet and the butt 

 of his spear remain. Below, in what is called the 

 KprjTTi^ of the monument, is a young horseman, 

 holding the reins in his left hand and in his right 

 two javelins ; he is armed also with a short, 

 straight sword. It should be remembered that 

 the two reins are often represented on the same 

 side in early art, so that this relief does not prove 

 the existence of two sets of reins (see note 53, 

 p. 144). The reins must be supposed to be 

 attached directly to the bit; there is here no 

 representation of branches, but such details are 

 often neglected in art. This rider, however, 

 carries two javelins ; and yet Xenophon in his 

 twelfth chapter (p. 68) speaks as if he were 



