Caballo y poder las élites ecuestres en la Hispania indoeuropea

Abstract

This work is part of the doctoral thesis in preparation of the author devoted to the study of the aristocratic elite warriors and headquarters of the Indo-European Hispania. It is pretend to analyze the shape and symbolism of the horse as a social emblem for these elites, subject that have tried several authors. This study comes of the analysis of the sources, both literary archaeological and iconographic, after which it insists on the idea of how the right to own a horse was something reserved for the social elites and operated as an element of social status that differentiates this privileged group of the rest people, without underestimating the importance of other elements prestige as weapons.