This is a new (2010) easy-to-read translation by ancient Greek language scholar and horsewoman Dr. A. Nyland and is NOT one of the many century-old public domain translations NOR is it a reworded public domain version. Great advances which have been made in ancient Greek word meaning in the last twenty years were unknown to the translators of the public domain versions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Despite the current trend for non-translators to reproduce public domain versions as a commercial venture, be aware that such public domain versions do not take advantage of recent scholarship in word meaning.
Xenophon was an ancient Greek soldier who lived from around 430-354 BC. His "Art of Horsemanship" is his work on selecting and educating horses. It was not the first work of its kind, an earlier being that by Simon of Athens.
BONUS! This book also includes excerpts by Aristotle, Columella, Diogenes Laertius, Herodotos, Juvenal, Livy, Pliny the Elder, Simon of Athens, Suetonius, Theomnestus, Virgil, (and two of Xenophon's other works mentioning horsemanship,) all on horsemanship.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr A. Nyland is a Classical Greek language scholar who served as faculty at the University of New England, Australia. Apart from her books on horse care, she is best known for her replication of the Bronze Age horse fitness training text, The Kikkuli Text, replicating the ancient 7 month fitness regime with Arabian horses in the early 1990s in a university trial.
Dr. Nyland is the Director of Morrigan Horse Rescue and Rehab Inc., a charity for hard case rescue horses in Australia.
Xenophon was an ancient Greek soldier who lived from around 430-354 BC. His "Art of Horsemanship" is his work on selecting and educating horses. It was not the first work of its kind, an earlier being that by Simon of Athens.
BONUS! This book also includes excerpts by Aristotle, Columella, Diogenes Laertius, Herodotos, Juvenal, Livy, Pliny the Elder, Simon of Athens, Suetonius, Theomnestus, Virgil, (and two of Xenophon's other works mentioning horsemanship,) all on horsemanship.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr A. Nyland is a Classical Greek language scholar who served as faculty at the University of New England, Australia. Apart from her books on horse care, she is best known for her replication of the Bronze Age horse fitness training text, The Kikkuli Text, replicating the ancient 7 month fitness regime with Arabian horses in the early 1990s in a university trial.
Dr. Nyland is the Director of Morrigan Horse Rescue and Rehab Inc., a charity for hard case rescue horses in Australia.
