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The Horse in the Ancient World on Hardback by Carolyn Willekes
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The Horse in the Ancient World

From Bucephalus to the Hippodrome
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The domestication of the horse in the fourth millennium BC altered the course of mankind's future. Formerly a source only of meat, horses now became the prime mode of fast transport as well as a versatile weapon of war. Carolyn Willekes traces the early history of the horse through a combination of equine iconography, literary representations, fieldwork and archaeological theory. She explores the ways in which horses were used in the ancient world, whether in regular cavalry formations, harnessed to chariots, as a means of reconnaissance, in swift and deadly skirmishing (such as by Scythian archers) or as the key mode of mobility. Establishing a regional typology of ancient horses - Mediterranean, Central Asian and Near Eastern - the author discerns within these categories several distinct sub-types. Explaining how the physical characteristics of each type influenced its use on the battlefield - through grand strategy, singular tactics and general deployment - she focuses on Egypt, Persia and the Hittites, as well as Greece and Rome. This is the most comprehensive treatment yet written of the horse in antiquity.

Author Biography:

Carolyn Willekes holds degrees in classical studies from the University of Calgary and the University of Guelph. Her most recent publication is 'Horse Racing and Chariot Racing', co-authored with Sinclair Bell, in The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life (2013).
Release date Australia
July 29th, 2016
Audience
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Illustrations
40 bw integrated, 8pp colour plates
Pages
296
Dimensions
138x216x25
ISBN-13
9781784533663
Product ID
24160864

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