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The term sometimes meant instead the four horses without the chariot or the chariot alone. A three-horse chariot, or the three-horse team pulling it, was a triga, from triugi (of a team of three). A two-horse chariot, or the two-horse team pulling it, was a biga, from biugi.
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]
Quadriga is a Latin word for a chariot drawn by four horses. It may also refer to: the Triumphal Quadriga, also known as the Horses of Saint Mark; the sculptural depiction of a four-horse chariot atop the Brandenburg Gate; Quadriga (award), the statuette for which is modeled after the Brandenburg quadriga
Árvakr and Alsviðr, horses that pull Sól's chariot [1] Blóðughófi, Freyr's horse [2] Falhófnir, a horse of the gods [3] Glað, a horse of the gods [4] Glær, a horse listed in both the Grímnismál and Gylfaginning [5] Grani, the horse of Sigurð [6] Gulltoppr, the horse of Heimdallr [7] Gyllir, a horse whose name translates to "the ...
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 ...
Horses were domesticated circa 3500 BCE. Before that oxen were used. Historically, a wide variety of arrangements of horses and vehicles have been used, from chariot racing, which involved a small vehicle and four horses abreast, to horsecars or trollies, [note 1] which used two horses to pull a car that was used in cities before electric trams were developed.
Cinerary altar depicting the four-horse chariot in which Proserpina was abducted by the ruler of the underworld (2nd century) Although its primary use was as a training ground, the trigarium is sometimes thought to have been the venue for the two-horse chariot races that preceded the October Horse ritual, performed in the Campus Martius in honor of Mars on October 15. [17]
Early horse archery, depicted on the Assyrian carvings, involved two riders, one controlling both horses while the second shot. [39] [citation needed] Heavy horse archers first appeared in the Assyrian army in the 7th century BC after abandoning chariot warfare and formed a link between light skirmishing cavalrymen and heavy cataphract cavalry.