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Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" is an African-American spiritual song and one of the best-known Christian hymns. Originating in early African-American musical traditions, the song was probably composed in the late 1860s by Wallace Willis and his daughter Minerva Willis , both Choctaw freedmen .
The names of very few charioteers are known from the Greek racing circuits, [h] Victory songs, epigrams and other monuments routinely omit the names of winning drivers. [ 28 ] The chariots themselves resembled war chariots, essentially wooden two-wheeled carts with an open back, [ 29 ] though by this time chariots were no longer used in battle.
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 .
An RFU spokesperson said: “The ‘Swing Low, Sweet Chariot’ song has long been part of the culture of rugby and is sung by many who have no awareness of its origins or sensitivities.
There have been other stage adaptations since the initial production in 1899, including a London production staged in 2009 at the O2 arena featuring a live chariot race. [18] The book was also adapted for motion pictures in 1907, 1925, 1959, 2003, 2016, and as an American television miniseries in 2010.
”The Chariots of the Lord” is a poem by Rev. John Brownlie, D.D., [1] set to music by Edward Elgar in 1914. The song was written for Clara Butt and first performed by her in the Royal Albert Hall on 28 June 1914.
Other Latin words that distinguish chariots by the number of animals yoked as a team are quadriga, a four-horse chariot used for racing and associated with the Roman triumph; triga, or three-horse chariot, probably driven for ceremonies more often than racing (see Trigarium); and seiugis or seiuga, the six-horse chariot, more rarely raced and ...
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.