On Horsemanship
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~13,900 words · 66 passages
Cite this work
- APAXenophon. (n.d.). On Horsemanship. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/xenophon/on-horsemanship
- MLAXenophon. "On Horsemanship." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/xenophon/on-horsemanship.
- ChicagoXenophon. On Horsemanship. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/xenophon/on-horsemanship.
What it is about
A practical manual on choosing, caring for and riding a horse.
Context and history
The oldest treatise on horsemanship to survive whole, and still cited by riders: the advice on never punishing a horse in anger and on reading its reactions is held sound today. Xenophon wrote from what he had done, not from what he had read.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon's works (though there is doubt about some of these) is: Work Number of books The Anabasis 7 The Hellenica 7 The Cyropaedia 8 The Memorabilia 4 The Symposium 1 The Economist 1 On Horsemanship 1 The Sportsman 1 The Cavalry General 1 The Apology 1 On Revenues 1 The Hiero 1 The Agesilaus 1 The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians 2 Text in brackets "{}" is my transliteration of Greek text into English using an Oxford English Dictionary alphabet table. The diacritical marks have been lost. ON HORSEMANSHIP I Claiming to have attained some proficiency in horsemanship (1) ourselves, as the result of long experience in the fi
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