Keyword: Horse

Equine Currency: Thessalian Coinage and the Horse in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods

Rosanagh Mack

Equine Currency reinterprets the coinage of ancient Thessaly and Perrhaibia through the region’s famed horse culture. By analysing coin imagery, production and context, it explores the political, economic and cultural importance of horses, while revealing Thessaly’s connections with the wider ancient Mediterranean world. READ MORE

Hardback: £35.00

Irish Late Iron Age Equestrian Equipment in its Insular and Continental Context

Rena Maguire

This is the first practical archaeological study of Irish Iron Age lorinery. The horse and associated equipment were very much at the heart of the social changes set in motion by contact with the Roman Empire; the examination of the snaffles and bosals allows us to bring the people of the Late Iron Age in Ireland into focus. READ MORE

Paperback: £44.00 | eBook: £16.00

The Hippos of Troy

Francesco Tiboni

This book addresses perhaps the most famous episode in Classical mythology: the Wooden Horse of Troy. Through analysis of words, images and wrecks, the author proposes a new interpretation of what Homer actually intended when he spoke of the 'hippos' used by the Greeks to conquer Troy: a particular ship type, used to pay tribute to Levantine kings. READ MORE

Paperback: £12.50 | eBook: £16.00

Eastern Roman Mounted Archers and Extraordinary Medico-Surgical Interventions at Paliokastro in Thasos Island during the ProtoByzantine Period

Anagnostis P. Agelarakis

A recent archaeological discovery at Paliokastro (Thasos, Greece), and the subsequent study of the human skeletal remains interred in four monumental funerary contexts, provide for the first time through the archaeological record of the region a unique insight of the mounted archers and their female kin during the turbulent ProtoByzantine period. READ MORE

Paperback: £20.00 | Free Download | eBook Institution: £10.00

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