and short treatises on horsemanship and hunting. 2. Xenophon’s “Oeconomicus,” the book that started it all The oikos (“household”), the basic unit of Greek society, encompassed the ...

Xenophon, a student of Socrates, recorded the system in his seminal tome On Horsemanship. Enlightened riding — besides many other things — sunk without trace in the Dark Ages. Xenophon’s ...

Sadly, modernity, until very recently, found little reason to pay attention to Xenophon. Once studied and revered by men like Machiavelli and Alexander the Great, classicists and historians in the ...