Further Resources: Equestrian Events

• See the catalog description and more images of the Harvard chariot vase.

• See the catalog description and more images of the vase with the close-up of the chariot race.

• Read the writer Pausanias's account of the organization of the various equestrian events in his 2nd century A.D. tour guide of Greece.

• See the catalog description and more images of the vase with riders.

• Read the 5th century B.C. historian Thucydides's description of one aristocrat's entry of several chariots in his History of the Peloponnesian War.

• See the catalog description and more images of the vase with more than 1 chariot.

• Read the horse-plague quote from the 5th century B.C. playwright Aristophanes's comedy, the Clouds.

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