Talk:Thracian horseman

The "Thracian horseman" is the hunter on horseback with the lance, the dog, and the boar or lion.

Apparently this image is later syncretised with the Dioscuri and appears with a goddess figure or a tree-and-serpent. This is clearly a related/derived motif, but it is unclear whether it should also be called "Thracian horseman". In any case, it needs to be put in chronological perspective.

The motif of a warrior on horseback trampling an enemy is not part of the "Thracian horseman" motif. This is just a common motif from Greek and Roman funerary stelae. It isn't clear how the icon of "Demetrius Horseman" is supposed to be derived from the "Thracian horseman" in particular. Similar for St. George. The oldest depiction of St. George on horseback slaying the dragon dates to the 12th century (Likhauri, Georgia). The "horseman" iconography is just the generic "horseman" motif from the Roman period and not necessarily "Thracian". The "St George and the Dragon" motif appears in Georgia, not in the Balkans, and I imagine it is more directly connected to Scythian (Alanian-Ossetian) tradition (Uastyrdzhi) than derived from Thracian tradition (suggestively, older (11th-century) depictions of St George on horseback show him slaying a human enemy, not a dragon: Ipari, Labechina). It is easy to cite references that invoke the "possibility" of St. George and the Dragon being derived from the "Thracian horseman", but so far I haven't found a dedicated article that discusses the  evidence. --dab (𒁳) 11:48, 27 August 2016 (UTC)

Karabasmos
The name Karabasmos ist 100% compatible with Turkish word Karabasma, meaning Nightmare. I thought at the beginning that the name of this heros would be Karabaş, meaning Black Head(ed). I think, we can/should not ignore this information!UzunbacakAdem (talk) 12:48, 6 July 2022 (UTC) Uzunbacak Adem