A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 185
It has been a subjectof controversy whetherGreek and Roman horseswere shod. There is no mention of horse-shoes in Greekliterature, and it seems improbable that they were used by theGreeks. Xenophon advises the use of a specially constructedstone floor for hardening the horses hoofs,2 but in spite… … Fig. 207.—Bronze Hobse-Muzzle(No. 509). Ht. ca. 9 in. 1 De re eq. v. 3. 2 Xen., op. oil., iv. 3. Thuc, vii. 27,5. 174 GREEK AND ROMAN LIFE. in Roman literature. Their use seems to have been quite exceptionalas when Nero, for instance, had his mules shod with silver.1 Inthe lower part of Case 51…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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