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unusual facts about chariot race



Cybele

On April 10, her image was taken in public procession to the Circus Maximus, and chariot races were held there in her honour; a statue of Magna Mater was permanently sited on the racetrack's dividing barrier, showing the goddess seated on a lion's back.

The Assassins of Rome

Flavia and her friends also witness contemporary events such as the building of Vespasian's new amphitheatre - now known as the Colosseum - and the chariot races at the Circus Maximus during the Ludi Romani.


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B. Reeves Eason

He used 42 cameras to film the chariot race as a second-unit director on Ben-Hur (1925), the climactic charge in Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), and also directed the "Burning of Atlanta" in Gone with the Wind (1939).

Pseudo-Chalkidian vase painting

There is a single depiction of a chariot race, as well as one amphora with Odysseus and Kirke.