View Single Post
Old 07-17-2009, 12:31 PM   #24
Icelander
 
Icelander's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Iceland*
Default Re: Medieval Horse Types and Traits

Quote:
Originally Posted by Asta Kask View Post
I'm preparing an Ancient Greece campaign. What kind of horse would the hippeis of a city-state like Athens use? And did they shoe horses back then? Wikipedia says no, but I'm not sure I trust it.
Shoeing, no. That's a medieval development.

And I'm afraid that I have little or no knowledge of Ancient Greek horseflesh. I have some minimal knowledge of Roman Republican ones, but I've never investigated the question in earlier periods.

I can hazard a guess that they'd be small, enough to count as ponies in the modern day.
__________________
Za uspiekh nashevo beznadiozhnovo diela!
Icelander is offline   Reply With Quote