Hipparchicus (Ἱππαρχικός, Hipparchikós) is one of the two treatises on horsemanship by the Athenian historian and soldier Xenophon (circa 430 – 354 BC).
Hipparchicus deals mainly with the duties of the cavalry commander (hipparchus), while On horsemanship deals with the selection, care and training of horses in general.
The treatises of Xenophon were written in about 350 BC, and were considered the earliest extant works on horsemanship in any literature until the publication by Bedřich Hrozný in 1931 of a Hittite text, that by Kikkuli of the Mitanni Kingdom,[1]: 457 which dates from about 1360 BC.
[2]: 2 Some fragments of Simon's treatise survive, however;[3] they were published by Franz Rühl in 1912.
[4][5]: 4 The first printed edition of Hipparchicus is that in the complete edition of Xenophon of 1516 from the Giunti press:[6] The earliest printing in Greek in England may be:[7]: 607 Translations include: