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Автор: Willekes, Carolyn
Название: Horse in the ancient world
ISBN: 9781784533663
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
Классификация:

История Древнего мира: до 500 гг. н.э.

Лошади и пони

ISBN-10: 1784533661
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 288
Вес: 0.52 кг.
Дата издания: 29.07.2016
Серия: Library of classical studies
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 40 bw integrated, 8pp colour plates
Размер: 150 x 223 x 29
Читательская аудитория: Postgraduate, research & scholarly
Ключевые слова: Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes, etc),Ancient history: to c 500 CE,Military history,Archaeological theory,Ancient religions & mythologies,Migration, immigration & emigration,Domestic trade,Human geography,Horses & ponies, HISTO
Подзаголовок: From bucephalus to the hippodrome
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: The domestication of the horse in the fourth millennium BC altered the course of mankinds 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.

Horse in the ancient world, Willekes, Carolyn