Monday, September 27, 2010

Xenophon Peri Hippikes - arms and armor for the rider, rider's posture

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 Salve, finishing this Xenophon's horsemanship work with a fragment of a mural (Alexandrovo) painting of Thracian horseman hunting wi...
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Xenophon of horseridding - paces

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Continuing from Chapter X: CHAPTER XI. Of teaching a horse his paces. How to make him assume showy attitudes. 1. But if a person w...
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Xenophon of horse ridding - bit, briddle and hand

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Continuing the Horsemanship Chapter IX : CHAPTER X. Of the proper management of the bit and bridle. l. But whoever would desire to...

Xenophon o horse ridding -fierce and diffcult warhorse

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Xenophon - Continuing from chapter VIII: CHAPTER IX. How fierce and high-mettled horses are to be managed. l. The directions which...

Xenopon on horse ridding - making a warhorse

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Xenophon Peri Hippikes - continuing from chapter VI: CHAPTER VIII. How a horse is to be taught to leap. How he is to be prepared fo...
Sunday, September 5, 2010

Persian horse bits in my sketches and rhytons from Armenia

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Salve, I have been playing with some pen  drawings of the  horse bits of the Achaemenid and Sassanian Persia. First sketch  is a rathe...
Friday, September 3, 2010

Achaemenid asabāra - hippeis - horseman

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Salve,  a light asabāra (horseman) of Ancient Persia - the Achaemenid Persian Empire, perhaps of  the IV century BCE. He wields two ...
Thursday, September 2, 2010

Remembering September 1939

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Salve, September is always a month of sorrow for the Slavic and Jewish people of East-Central Europe, because during that sad month of 19...
Saturday, August 28, 2010

Comanche war bridle

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How kola (Lakota greeting),  my little sketch of what various horse trainers of the XIX century perceived as  the 'Comanche war bridle...
Friday, August 27, 2010

Achaemenid Persian (and Median) cavalry in sketches

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 Ushta te,  I wold like to show you this composite image of several drawings of mine that are supposed to show the horsemen of the Achaemen...
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Xenophon on horse ridding - continuation of Peri Hippikes

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Salveos, today continuing from the Xenophon's book Peri Hippikes http://dariocaballeros.blogspot.com/2010/08/xenophon-on-colt-youn...
Friday, August 20, 2010

Xenophon's threatise 'On Horsemanship' continued

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Salveos, today we're going to continue with the most famous equestrian treatise,  Xenophon's "On Horsemanship,"  alre...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

XV century horses and their tack in Cappella dei Magi, Florence

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Salvete, In my previous one  entry on the Medieval dextrarius and his lesser friends  war-horse-dextrarius-opertus , I attempted to in...
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Sunday, August 15, 2010

Cavalry and horses of Northern Wei - China nomadic rulers

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Salve, Let us return to China and its nomadic heritage and equine past, to the time of the IV-VI centuries AD. When in the western E...
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