On Horsemanship, by Xenophon, Part 1
Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
Sharon Handy
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🗓️ 26 June 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
By listener request, let’s relax and sleep with this guide to the purchasing, care, and training of horses in Ancient Greece. To sum up, hooves are everything, and kindness counts. Good advice!
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening, and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime. |
| 0:08.0 | I hope tonight's selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep. |
| 0:20.0 | Before we begin, I'd like to give a special shout out of thanks to some new members of our Patreon |
| 0:26.3 | family. |
| 0:27.3 | Tom, Kenan, Amber, and Karen. |
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| 1:24.6 | Now, let's read and relax. |
| 1:30.2 | Find a comfortable spot. |
| 1:35.9 | Adjust your volume. |
| 1:41.1 | Take a nice deep breath in, let it out slowly. And off we go. Tonight we reach into the list of listener requests with a book that has |
| 1:58.5 | particular interest for me because I am a woman who started out life as a horse girl if you know you know. |
| 2:10.0 | Tonight we're relaxing with a classic on horsemanship, written by Xenophon, and translated by |
| 2:20.0 | HD Dakenes. |
| 2:22.0 | First written around 355 BC. |
| 2:27.0 | Let's begin. |
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