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Thessalian horses, Lacedaemonian [Σπάρτα-Sparta] women and the men who drink water from the sacred Arethusa. Strabo relates these words of an oracle to us as being the three finest things in all of Greece.
Indeed, Thessalian horses were famed for their quality no less than the cavalrymen who rode them and served in many a Greek army.
Thessalian cavalry delivered the decisive blow against the Romans at the Battle of Herakleia in 280 BC, and formed the largest non Macedonian contingent in the army of Alexander the Great, fighting with distinction at the Granicus, at Issus and at Gaugamela.
The costume of the warrior portrayed on this coin marks him out as a Thessalian prodromos or light cavalryman, skirmishers who could fight on foot or horseback and were frequently used as scouting forces.
Click for more coin images of the ancient city Pelinna.
Indeed, Thessalian horses were famed for their quality no less than the cavalrymen who rode them and served in many a Greek army.
Thessalian cavalry delivered the decisive blow against the Romans at the Battle of Herakleia in 280 BC, and formed the largest non Macedonian contingent in the army of Alexander the Great, fighting with distinction at the Granicus, at Issus and at Gaugamela.
The costume of the warrior portrayed on this coin marks him out as a Thessalian prodromos or light cavalryman, skirmishers who could fight on foot or horseback and were frequently used as scouting forces.
Click for more coin images of the ancient city Pelinna.