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200 1. $a The horse in the ancient world $b Texte imprimé $e from Bucephalus to the hippodrome $f Carolyn Willekes
210 .. $a London $c I. B. Tauris $d 2016
215 .. $a xiii, 272 Seiten $c Ill. $d 23 cm
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300 .. $a Bibliogr. p. 256-268
330 .. $a 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
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