This is a new English translation by Dr. A. Nyland. Xenophon (430-354 BC) was an ancient Greek soldier and Art of Horsemanship is his work on selecting and educating horses. This book also includes excerpts by Aristotle, Columella, Diogenes Laertius, Herodotos, Juvenal, Livy, Pliny the Elder, Simon of Athens, Suetonius, Theomnestus, Virgil, and two of Xenophon's other works mentioning horsemanship.