1/8 XENOPHON ON HORSEMANSHIP. 



contest or a parade ; perhaps he was a hipparch 

 or phylarch (see p. 75). I have chosen this reUef 

 because it seems to illustrate Xenophon's words 

 on the proper way to lead a troop of cavalry, if 

 you wish to make the whole line ^'a sight well 

 worth seeing" (p. 64). 



Page 64. A silver coin of Ichnae, in Macedo- 

 nia, 500-480 B.C. From the '^Catalogue of the 

 Greek Coins in the British Museum," Macedonia, 

 p. 76. Note the hogged mane of the horse 

 (p. 94) and the rider's greaves (note 63, p. 153). 

 The inscription gives the name of the town. 



Page 65. An Attic black- figured vase of the 

 fifth century; from Gerhard's "Vases Etrusques 

 et Campaniens du Mus. Roy. de Berlin," pi. xii. 

 The horsemen wear greaves (note 63, p. 153), and 

 each carries two spears (p. 162) ; the helmet may 

 be the type called Boeotian (note 61, p. 152). 

 The inscriptions at the left and at the right show 

 that the two men are the Attic heroes, Acamas 

 and Demophon, sons of Theseus and Phaedra. 

 Homer does not mention them ; but according to 

 later stories current among the Athenians, they 

 went to the Trojan war, and Vergil puts Acamas 

 among the heroes in the Trojan horse. They 

 appear several times in vase-paintings ; and there 

 were bronze equestrian statues of them on the 

 AcropoUs, as well as a painting of them by Polyg- 

 notus at Delphi. The names of their horses are 



