Xenophon did much more than write on horsemanship. He was a great
warrior and astute military strategist. As a youth he was a disciple of
Sorates. He was a prolific writter whose works greately contributed to
the knowledge of the day in Greece and Persia. He lived around 430 to
355 BC. His most famous works where about the wars of the times and
showed the great military mind he possessed. Among his other works is a
biography of Cyrus the Great and a set of recollections of Socrates and
Socratic conversations. He worte a group of political and economics
treatises, and of course a series of essays on horsemanship, hunting
and calalry warfare. His essays on horsemanship are as useful today as
they were at the time of their writting about 2400 years ago.
He was much more than an earlier version of Lions, Parelli, etc. And
you are absolutely correct as a mentor for endurance - or any other
horse sport for that matter - I'd take him any day.
Truman
Andrea Day wrote:
A translation of
Xenophon's "Art of Horsemanship" can be found on line at
or you can do a dot search on google for Xenophon Art.of.Horsemanship
and find several other sites that you might prefer in a different
format. His writing was one of the first things I ever downloaded over
the net.
Interesting how this guy had it ALL figured out--way before Lyons,
Parelli, or Roberts, way before Strausser, way before Ivers--Xenephon
was speaking on the right way to work with horses. Somehow through the
ages this information was lost, and we're finally getting back on
track. I'd take him for an endurance mentor anytime.
-- "The person of superior integrity does not insist upon his
integrity
"The person of superior integrity does not insist
upon
his integrity.
For this reason, he
has integrity. The person of inferior integrity
never loses sight
of his integrity.For this reason, he
lacks integrity."
