{"id":10819,"date":"2014-04-22T15:02:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T19:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/?p=10819"},"modified":"2018-12-19T20:58:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T00:58:26","slug":"the-great-chariot-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2014\/04\/the-great-chariot-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Chariot Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;An eruption of applause broke the spell, swelling as the Imperial team galloped onto the arena floor.&#8221;<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>This striking and highly-detailed miniature artwork by <a href=\"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/tag\/marti-adrian\/\"><em>Marti Adrian Gregory<\/em><\/a> shows the personality of each chariot horse from the story! The 3rd Great Horse in history is part of the Emperor&#8217;s Quadriga (4-horse chariot).<\/p>\n<p>The team is intentionally made of stallions, according to the custom of the times. The horse on the right, the <em>iguales<\/em>, is a fleet-footed, skittish stallion of early Arabian blood named <strong>Saxon <\/strong>&#8230; eager <strong>Ajax <\/strong>and trusty <strong>Helios <\/strong>are teamed to the yoke &#8230; and the terror of the Circus and source of the Emperor&#8217;s trouble is the leftmost horse, the popular <em>funales<\/em> called <strong>Cerberus<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/GHorse03-chariot-team.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/GHorse03-chariot-team.jpg\" alt=\"The Emperor&#039;s chariot team (100 AD) ... from Eclipsed by Shadow, Book #1 of THE LEGEND OF THE GREAT HORSE trilogy: (c) Micron Press\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/GHorse03-chariot-team.jpg 480w, https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/GHorse03-chariot-team-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/GHorse03-chariot-team-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;An eruption of applause broke the spell, swelling as the Imperial team galloped onto the arena floor.&#8221; This striking and highly-detailed miniature artwork by Marti Adrian Gregory shows the personality of each chariot horse from the story! The 3rd Great Horse in history is part of the Emperor&#8217;s Quadriga (4-horse chariot). The team is intentionally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/2014\/04\/the-great-chariot-horse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Great Chariot Horse&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[370],"tags":[118,85,70,375,402],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15492,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10819\/revisions\/15492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreathorse.com\/book-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}