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Article: Hippeis: The Cavalry of Ancient Greece.
- Article from:
- The Historian
- Article date:
- March 22, 1995
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Leslie Worley sets out to trace the evolution of cavalry on the battlefields of ancient Greece. He succeeds at doing that with general clarity, and this account will probably prove of great interest to the general reader. He discerns three stages in the evolution of cavalry in Greece. The first involved the use of cavalry as rapid conveyance to, from, and sometimes across the field of battle. This phase begins in the Bronze Age with the Mycenaeans and ends with the final battle of the Second Persian War, Plataea, in 479 B.C. The second stage was use as a platform for "harassment, screening, and pursuit." This period runs from Plataea through the end of the Peloponnesian War ...