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The race, which was one lap around the stump of a tree, was won by Diomedes, who received a slave woman and a cauldron as his prize. A chariot race also was said to be the event that founded the Olympic Games; according to one legend, mentioned by Pindar, King Oenomaus challenged suitors for his daughter Hippodamia to a race, but was defeated ...
Representation of a chariot race on a clay hydria. Euryleonis (Ancient Greek: Ευρυλεωνίς) (Flourished c. 370 BC, Sparta, ancient Greece) was a celebrated woman, owner of a chariot-winner of Olympic games. Euryleonis was a horse breeder from Sparta whose horse chariot won the two horse chariot races of the Ancient Olympic Games in 368 ...
As Sarah Pomeroy writes, “In Greece it was not uncommon to treat athletes as heroes, but Cynisca was the first woman to be elevated to this status.” [4] According to Pausanias, many Greek women, especially from Sparta, won Olympic chariot races after Cynisca. [6] One of these female victors, Euryleonis who won in 368 B.C., was commemorated ...
The song was twice recorded by American country music artist George Jones: first released on the album The Crown Prince of Country Music retitled "One Woman Man" in 1960, and later as "I'm a One Woman Man" released in November 1988 as the first single from his album One Woman Man.
Diomedes first place prize is, "a woman skilled in all useful arts, and a three-legged cauldron". The chariot race is considered as the most prestigious competition in the funeral games and the most formal occasion for validating the status of the elite. [19] In this way Diomedes asserts his status as the foremost Achaean hero after Achilles.
An honorific inscription made in Rome during his lifetime (CIL VI, 10048 = ILS 5287) and another in Praeneste after his retirement there (CIL XIV, 288) are the sole records of his existence and career. They show that in his 24 years of racing, he won 1,462 of his 4,257 four-horse races as member of a team, and was placed in 1,438 more (mostly ...
One Woman Man spawned one hit single, a cover of the 1950s Johnny Horton song "(I'm A) One Woman Man", which peaked at No. 5 in March 1989. None of the other singles penetrated the top 25, although "The King Is Gone (So Are You)" would become a big fan favorite; titled initially "Ya Ba Da Ba Doo (So Are You)", the song is about a man who, in a drunken stupor after using a Flintstones jelly ...
The word derives from the Latin quadrigae, a contraction of quadriiugae, from quadri-: four, and iugum: yoke. In Latin the word quadrigae is almost always used in the plural [1] and usually refers to the team of four horses rather than the chariot they pull. [2] In Greek, a four-horse chariot was known as τέθριππον téthrippon. [3]