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unusual facts about chariot racing


Heracles Chariot Racing

Players control Heracles or one of a number of characters from Greek mythology (such as Poseidon, Medusa and the Minotaur) in a series of horseless chariot races for the honor of being crowned the Champion Charioteer without a horse.


Nudity in sport

It spread to the whole of Greece, Greater Greece and even its furthest colonies, and the athletes from all its parts, coming together for the Olympic Games and the other Panhellenic Games, competed naked in almost all disciplines, with the exception of chariot races, although there are depictions of naked chariot racers too.


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Lucius Tarquinius Priscus

Tarquin is said to have built the Circus Maximus, the first and largest stadium at Rome, for chariot racing.