The Horse in the Ancient World: From Bucephalus to the Hippodrome by Carolyn Willekes

The Horse in the Ancient World: From Bucephalus to the Hippodrome

Carolyn Willekes

288 pages first pub 2016 (view editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative medium-paced
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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...

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