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Contents
HORSES IN PREHISTORIC GREECE | 1 |
BREEDS OF HORSES | 15 |
HALTERS AND EARLY BITS | 40 |
LATER BITS AND BRIDLES | 50 |
ACCESSORIES | 79 |
STABLE MANAGEMENT | 89 |
SCHOOLING AND ORDINARY EQUITATION | 98 |
FURTHER USES OF THE HORSE | 110 |
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Alexander Mosaic ancient animals Arab Aristophanes armour Asia Asiatic Assurbanipal Assyrian Athenian Athens Attic bareback battle body breed British Museum Bronze Age browband canons cavalry chariot chariot horses cheek strap Compare Courtesy cuirass curved cheekpieces CVA Great Britain Cyropaedia dismounted drachmae evidence fastened fifth fourth century B.C. gallop Greece Greek Greek horses groom halter Hančar head heavy infantry helmet Hipparchicus hooves horse archers horse's mouth horseback horsemen hunting javelin knight later lead rope Lefebvre des Noëttes legs Lorimer Luristan Lysias mane mares metal monuments mounted mouthpiece mules neck nose noseband notes Pazyryk perhaps Persepolis Plate Plutarch probably pulled race reins ridden rider Ridgeway riding rings Roman rough round saddle saddle-cloth Scythian seventh century B.C. side sidebars sixth century B.C. snaffle spear spikes spur Strabo Thessalian throat lash vase paintings Vegetius viii war horse wears worn Xenophon Yalouris