Ad
related to: roman chariot modelsebay.com has been visited by 1M+ users in the past month
- eBay Money Back Guarantee
Worry-Free Shopping.
eBay Is Here For You!
- Fashion
The World is Your Closet.
Shop Your Top Fashion Brands.
- Trending on eBay
Inspired by Trending Stories.
Find Out What's Hot and New on eBay
- Sell on eBay
168 Million Shoppers Want to Buy.
Start Making Money Today.
- eBay Money Back Guarantee
Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Modern depiction (1876) by Jean Léon Gérôme of a chariot race in Rome's Circus Maximus, as if seen from the starting gate. The Palatine Hill and imperial palace are to the left. Chariot racing (Ancient Greek: ἁρματοδρομία, harmatodromía; Latin: ludi circenses) was one of the most popular ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine sports.
Reconstructed Roman chariot drawn by horses. Approximate historical map of the spread of the spoke-wheeled chariot, 2000—500 BC. A chariot is a type of vehicle similar to a cart, driven by a charioteer, usually using horses [note 1] to provide rapid motive power.
Bronze figurine of a biga from Roman Gaul; the chariot itself is missing the breastwork. The biga (Latin; pl.: bigae) is the two-horse chariot as used in ancient Rome for sport, transportation, and ceremonies. Other animals may replace horses in art and occasionally for actual ceremonies.
Gaius Appuleius Diocles (104 – after 146 AD) was a Roman charioteer. His existence and career are attested by two highly detailed contemporary inscriptions, used by modern historians to help reconstruct the likely conduct and techniques of chariot racing. He has been described in some modern sources as the highest-paid athlete of all time. [1]
The Horses of Saint Mark in Venice. A quadriga is a car or chariot drawn by four horses abreast and favoured for chariot racing in classical antiquity and the Roman Empire.The word derives from the Latin quadrigae, a contraction of quadriiugae, from quadri-: four, and iugum: yoke.
An ornate and fully intact ceremonial chariot has been unearthed at a villa just outside of the infamous city of Pompeii. The post A Fully Intact Roman Chariot Survived Pompeii’s Destruction ...
The chariot is based on Roman models, not native British or Iceni models, and has a scythe blade attached to each wheel. The queen stands upright, in a flowing gown, with a spear in her right hand and her left hand raised. Her daughters, with bared breasts, crouch in the chariot, one to either side of their mother.
Denarius depicting the helmeted head of Mars, with Victory driving a biga on the reverse (issued 88 BC by Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus). The Equirria (also as Ecurria, from equicurria, "horse races") were two ancient Roman festivals of chariot racing, or perhaps horseback racing, [1] held in honor of the god Mars, one 27 February and the other 14 March.
Ad
related to: roman chariot modelsebay.com has been visited by 1M+ users in the past month