Less violent than the gladiators, chariot racing was still an extreme ... Like the gladiators, chariot races were popular sports for the Roman masses, not the social elites, who disliked the ...
It had a long history as a battlefield shock machine - an early primitive tank from which arrows were shot as it raced through opposing ranks of foot soldiers. Chariot racing only really came in when ...
and in Roman times chariot racing - as re-enacted in the film Ben Hur - was very popular, attracting huge crowds. The first recorded chariot race in the ancient Olympics was in about 680 BC.
A proposed monument for a historic Army barracks could "harm" remains of an ancient Roman chariot racing track, Historic England said. The Roman Circus, a scheduled ancient monument in Colchester ...
Yet while cinema foregrounds gladiators in our modern consciousness, ancient fans likely reserved greater passion for other performers—above all theater and chariot racing. When Roman authors ...