Images on pottery show that chariot racing existed in thirteenth century BC Mycenaean Greece. The first literary reference to a … See more

The Olympic Games were traditionally founded in 776 BC, by the Eleans, a wealthy, prestigious horse-owning aristocracy. Pindar, the earliest source for the Olympics, includes chariot racing among thei… See more

The Romans probably borrowed chariot technology and racing track design from the Etruscans, who in turn had borrowed them from the Greeks. Rome's public entertainments were also influenced directly by … See more

Constantine I (r. 306–337) refounded the eastern Greek city of Byzantium as a "New Rome", to serve as the administrative center of the eastern half of the Empire, and renamed it Constantinople. He replaced o… See more

• Carriage driving
• Harness racing
• Oval track racing
• Spectacles in ancient Rome
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• Theophanes; Turtledove, Harry (1982). The Chronicle of Theophanes: An English Translation of anni mundi 6095–6305 (A.D. 602–813). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-1128-3… See more