{"url":"https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/descriptions/108/?format=json","language":{"code":"eng","iso_name":"English","url":"https://anthologiagraeca.org/api/languages/eng/?format=json"},"created_at":"2018-03-27T19:45:53Z","updated_at":"2018-03-27T19:45:53Z","description":"# Genre 7.208\n\n The ownership of a horse in ancient Athens was a symbol of status and wealth.\nHorses played a central role in war, civic festivals, and funerary rituals.\nThe fact that Damis is depicted to lament his dead horse permits us to suppose that he was a privileged man."}