CONTENTS

Also by Charles Freeman

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Preface

1	PLUNDERED PLUNDER
2	CONSTANTINOPLE: THE HORSES’ FIRST HOME?
3	HORSES AND HEROES
4	CREATING QUADRIGAE
5	WATCHERS IN THE HIPPODROME
6	THE FOURTH CRUSADE AND THE SACK OF CONSTANTINOPLE
7	THE HORSES ARRIVE AT ST MARK’S
8	DOGE OR EMPEROR? THE HORSES, HIPPODROMES AND IMPERIAL DISPLAY
9	VENICE: THE REPUBLICAN COMMUNITY
10	THE SEARCH FOR THE HORSES’ ORIGINS
11	THE IDEAL HORSE?
12	THE HORSES IN AN AGE OF DECADIMENTO
13	THE FALL OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC
14	‘TO THE CARROUSEL!’: THE HORSES TRIUMPH IN PARIS
15	ANTONIO CANOVA AND THE RETURN OF THE HORSES TO VENICE
16	GREEK OR ROMAN? THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY DEBATES
17	FRAGMENTED IMAGINATIONS: THE REINVENTION OF VENICE
18	DENOUEMENTS
19	ENVOI: THE HORSES AS CULTURAL ICONS

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