The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . es of to-day I amindebted to Mr E. Neville-Eolfe, , M. Consul for South Italy, throughmy friend Mr G. P. Bidder, , Trin. Coll., Camb. 2 For this information I am indebted to Mr G. P. Bidder, who has takenmuch trouble to get me information about the structure and use of the nose-band. He tells me that the riding-horses are controlled by the bit, and thatcarriage-horses are driven with bits and English harness. in] AND HISTORIC TIMES 285 Greek colonics of Southern Italy, and for Greece itself, wc shallnow resume the history of the
The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . es of to-day I amindebted to Mr E. Neville-Eolfe, , M. Consul for South Italy, throughmy friend Mr G. P. Bidder, , Trin. Coll., Camb. 2 For this information I am indebted to Mr G. P. Bidder, who has takenmuch trouble to get me information about the structure and use of the nose-band. He tells me that the riding-horses are controlled by the bit, and thatcarriage-horses are driven with bits and English harness. in] AND HISTORIC TIMES 285 Greek colonics of Southern Italy, and for Greece itself, wc shallnow resume the history of the horse in Greece proper, and thentake up the story of that animal in Central and Upper Italy. We saw that the horses of the Acheans bred in Thessalyand Elis were dun coloured, and that they were not ridden, butdriven in pairs under chariots. But the horse and the chariothad already been known in the Bronze Age (Mycenean period),before ever the sons of the Acheans had come. This is provedby the grave-stones found on the acropolis of Mycenae over the. Fig. The Neapolitan Courser. famous shaft-graves which contained the rich treasures buriedwith the royal Perseid house, which had reigned in the BronzeAge in Argolis. Several of their stelae (Fig. 47, p. 107) show inlow relief a two-horse chariot in which is seated some personage,not unlikely the ancient chief whose mouldering bones wereuncovered by Schliemann. Moreover the Homeric poems haveat least one reference to the horses kept by the men of thepre-Achean time. The Iliad^ speaks thus of one steed of thatbygone age: Not even if he drove at thy back divine Arion, xxin. 346. 286 THE HORSES OF PREHISTORIC [CH. swift steed of Adrastus that sprang from the gods. A linein the lost epic called Thebais told how Adrastus fled fromThebes wearing sorry garments, and with him dark-manedArion. According to Antimachus Adrastus was the first of theDanaans that drove two high-praised steeds, fleet Caerus andThelpusian Arion, whom, near the Once
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