The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . Diod. Sic. XIII. 82. 6. Ill] AND HISTORIC TIMES 277 horse, and the drachms a horseman. Gela not only pridedherself on her racing successes, but on what was far moreimportant, her fine cavalry, for her coins show a four-horsechariot with Nike floating above, and very constantly an armedhorseman, spearing a prostrate foe, or else striking downwards. Fk Archaic Metope, showing a Quadriga; Selinus. with his spear. These coins give us some of the earliestnumismatic representations of riding. But by far the earliestrepresentation of Sicilian h
The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . Diod. Sic. XIII. 82. 6. Ill] AND HISTORIC TIMES 277 horse, and the drachms a horseman. Gela not only pridedherself on her racing successes, but on what was far moreimportant, her fine cavalry, for her coins show a four-horsechariot with Nike floating above, and very constantly an armedhorseman, spearing a prostrate foe, or else striking downwards. Fk Archaic Metope, showing a Quadriga; Selinus. with his spear. These coins give us some of the earliestnumismatic representations of riding. But by far the earliestrepresentation of Sicilian horses now extant is the quadriga onone of the metopes of the archaic temple of Selinus ( 628), which date from the latter half of the seventh cen-tury The metopes, which are in high relief and extremelyvigorous in execution, have a special interest as they are the 278 THE HORSES OF PREHISTORIC [CH. most ancient extant specimens of Greek sculpture of thehistorical period. The quadriga relief which represents achariot and horses in elevation (Fig. 77) is the most remark-able. The Sicilian horses, to judge by the monuments justcited, as well as the Carthaginian issues of Panormus (Fig. 74 6,p. 255), were cross-bred animals, for doubtless the desire toobtain strength made the Sicilians prefer half-bred to pureLibyan horses. It seems almost certain that the white horses which theSicil
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