Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Dr. Carolyn Willekes joins me for Pony Talk! A wide-ranging discussion of ancient horsemanship, ancient cavalry, Xenophon, Alexander the Great and Bucephalas (Boukephalas). See a medieval image of Alexander's famous horse with a unicorn horn and peacock tail!
Dr. Willekes is not only the leading expert on Macedonian cavalry, but ancient horses generally. She's studied the ancient sources *and* tested those sources with experimental archaeology on horseback herself. If her face looks familiar, she's been interviewed on other YouTube videos and several documentaries, including the recent Netflix docudrama, "Alexander: the Making of a God."
Her first book, The Horse in the Ancient World: from Bucephalas to the Hippodrome, is available from Bloomsbury.
bloomsbury.com/us/horse-in-the-ancient-world-9781784533663
Her publications on academia.edu:
https://mtroyal.academia.edu/CarolynWillekes
Her Mount Royal faculty page:
mtroyal.ca/ProgramsCourses/FacultiesSchoolsCentres/Arts/Departments/Humanities/Faculty/Carolyn-Willekes.htm
Dr. Carolyn Willekes joins me for Pony Talk! A wide-ranging discussion of ancient horsemanship, ancient cavalry, Xenophon, Alexander the Great and Bucephalas (Boukephalas). See a medieval image of Alexander's famous horse with a unicorn horn and peacock tail!
Dr. Willekes is not only the leading expert on Macedonian cavalry, but ancient horses generally. She's studied the ancient sources *and* tested those sources with experimental archaeology on horseback herself. If her face looks familiar, she's been interviewed on other YouTube videos and several documentaries, including the recent Netflix docudrama, "Alexander: the Making of a God."
Her first book, The Horse in the Ancient World: from Bucephalas to the Hippodrome, is available from Bloomsbury.
bloomsbury.com/us/horse-in-the-ancient-world-9781784533663
Her publications on academia.edu:
https://mtroyal.academia.edu/CarolynWillekes
Her Mount Royal faculty page:
mtroyal.ca/ProgramsCourses/FacultiesSchoolsCentres/Arts/Departments/Humanities/Faculty/Carolyn-Willekes.htm
