The horse in Greek culture

The domestication of horseback riding it began in the Steppes of Central Asia. In the second millennium before our era, peoples experts in the breeding and domestication of the horse and the use of the war chariot, arrived in Mesopotamia.

For more than 25.000 years men have represented horses, they have been found together with the representation of other animals. Painted horses have been found in the caves and also carved in bones.

The history of humanity goes hand in hand, with the history of the horse, one could not speak of great triumphs without the help of great horses.

The earliest known representation of the horse in GreeceIt is from the year 1600 BC. Horsemanship seems to have developed from the year 500 BC. The Greeks bred light and heavy horses, each using them in their own way. In war they were used both in cavalry in Macedonia, and in chariots in the Peloponnese. At festive games, the racehorse conferred great prestige on its owners.

The Greeks stamped on the marble, the strength and beauty of this animal, which appears in their mythology, serving for symbolic associations.

The Etruscans used the horseback riding in a similar way to the Greeks leaving very beautiful representations, both paintings, ceramics and sculptures.

In Greece there were very famous horses like Pegasus, the horse of the god of Olympus, from Zeus. Xanthos and Balio it was a pair of immortal horses.

The one without equal Troy Horse.

Bucephalus the general's horse Alexander the Great, the greatest of all time, the one who never lost a battle. Along with every hero, there is a noble and fierce horse.