Boeotian horsemen 4th century BC

[bachmat66]

Xenophon desrcribes a cataphract of his time. Paul,i don't believe there existed such cavalry in Greece,and anywhere else for that matter...boeotian helmet with iranian cataphract equipment...

Khaire
Giannis

you are perhaps right regarding this 'perfect' horseman of Xenophon

The early boeotian stelae showing cavalrymen unfortunately show them naked,with only a chlamys and one or two spears. Horse completely unarmoured.
Now in the book you posted,there is a stele in Thebes with a macedonian era cavalryman,which most probably shows accurately thefamous boeotian men: Boeotian helmet,bronze cuirass,xyston and kopis(machaira,as Xenophon suggests). He also has a cloak,and indeed macedonian cavalrymen seem to have been fighting with cloaks. They wear them both in the Alexander sarcophagus and in the Alexander mosaic. Probably the boeotians wore them too.
Khaire
Giannis

I did see that stelae, and been thinking about it too - I think it does not have a date ascribed to it - I also saw some articles in the Gladius-on-the-web edition that talk about the Greek and Macedonian cavalry, perhaps one should peruse them too.
By the way the horses in the Italian (Lucania) paintings shown in the book seem to be pacers.
The horse armor did exist, not like the Persian scale covers but it did exist, so then who knows...