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The Greek word for chariot, ἅρμα, hárma, is also used nowadays to denote a tank, properly called άρμα μάχης, árma mákhēs, literally a "combat chariot". The Charioteer of Delphi was dedicated to the god Apollo in 474 BC by the tyrant of Gela in commemoration of a Pythian racing victory at Delphi .
The imagery surrounding a chariot-driving solar deity is likely Indo-European in origin. [13] [14] [15] Greek solar imagery begins with the gods Helios and Eos, who are brother and sister, and who become in the day-and-night-cycle the day (hemera) and the evening (hespera), as Eos accompanies Helios in his journey across the skies. At night, he ...
During the festival of the Halieia, the ancient Rhodians would sacrifice a quadriga-chariot by throwing it into the sea. [4] The quadriga was adopted in ancient Roman chariot racing. Quadrigas were emblems of triumph. Victory or Fame are often depicted as the triumphant woman driving it. In classical mythology, the quadriga is the
from Gaulish, from Old Celtic *carpentom, which is probably related to Gaulish karros (="chariot"). [27] carriage from Latin carrus, ultimately from the same Gaulish root as "car" and "carry". [28] carry from Gaulish karros "two-wheeled Celtic war chariot" via French [29] chock possibly from Old North French choque "a block" (Old French çoche ...
In his Dialogues of the Gods, the satirical writer Lucian of Samosata mentions that Clymene along with Phaethon pressured Helios to lend his chariot to the boy, [29] and that sometimes Helios lingers with Clymene, forgetting to drive his chariot. [30] A passage from Greek anthology also mentions Helios visiting Clymene in her room. [31]
The Cambridge Greek Lexicon is a dictionary of the Ancient Greek language published by Cambridge University Press in April 2021. First conceived in 1997 by the classicist John Chadwick, the lexicon was compiled by a team of researchers based in the Faculty of Classics in Cambridge consisting of the Hellenist James Diggle (Editor-in-Chief), Bruce Fraser, Patrick James, Oliver Simkin, Anne ...
Procession of two-horses chariots on a loutrophoros, c. 690 BC. The earliest reference to a chariot race in Western literature is an event in the funeral games of Patroclus in the Iliad. [4] In Homeric warfare, elite warriors were transported to the battlefield in two-horse chariots, but fought on foot; the chariot was then used for pursuit or ...
GE -The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek: Franco Montanari, Madeleine Goh, Chad Schroeder 2015 2,431 140,000 1 English: 8th c. BCE – 6th c. CE Italian 3rd edition GD - Wörterbuch Griechisch-Deutsch: Franco Montanari, Michael Meier-Brügger, Paul Dräger 2023 2,990 140,000 1 German: 8th c. BCE – 6th c. CE Italian 3rd edition