It was laid out in 196 for chariot races and other public games.

The site of the oblong piazza is Domitian's ancient stadium, which was probably used for horse and chariot races.

He thought that the image of " Apollo riding his chariot across the Sun was appropriate to the grand scale of the proposed program.

There was at the top of the Arc from 1882 to 1886, a monumental sculpture by Alexandre Falguière, " Le triomphe de la Révolution " ( the Triumph of the Revolution ), a chariot drawn by horses preparing " to crush Anarchy and Despotism ", that remained only four years up there before falling in ruins.

A great bronze statue of Boudica with her daughters in her war chariot ( furnished with scythes after the Persian fashion ) was commissioned by Prince Albert and executed by Thomas Thornycroft.

The film's title was inspired by the line, " Bring me my chariot of fire ," from the William Blake poem adapted into the popular British hymn " Jerusalem "; the hymn is heard at the end of the film.

The 15th century Venetian navigator Alvise Cadamosto made note of what was probably the Southern Cross on exiting the Gambia River in 1455, calling it the carro dell ' ostro (" southern chariot ").

Polytekhnos was finishing off a chariot board, and Aedon a web she had been weaving.

According to the Books of Kings, Elijah defended the worship of Yahweh over that of the Phoenician god Baal ; he raised the dead, brought fire down from the sky, and was taken up in a whirlwind ( either accompanied by a chariot and horses of flame or riding in it ).

In Hellenistic imagery, Hera's chariot was pulled by peacocks, birds not known to Greeks before the conquests of Alexander.

When Jason came to know of this, Medea was already gone ; she fled to Athens in a chariot sent by her grandfather, the sun-god Helios.

Many of the Roman symbols both of war and of civil office date from his reign, and he was the first to celebrate a Roman triumph, after the Etruscan fashion, wearing a robe of purple and gold, and borne on a chariot drawn by four horses.

In Greek art, Poseidon rides a chariot that was pulled by a hippocampus or by horses that could ride on the sea.

Before Persephone was abducted by Hades, the shepherd Eumolpus and the swineherd Eubuleus, saw a girl being carried of into the earth which had violently opened up, in a black chariot, driven by an invisible driver.

By the medieval Chinese dynasties, with the decline of chariot warfare, the use of the dagger-axe was almost nonexistent.

Cyril of Jerusalem ( 346 AD ) in the sixth of his Catechetical Lectures prefaces his history of the Manichaeans by a brief account of earlier heresies: Simon Magus, he says, had given out that he was going to be translated to heaven, and was actually careening through the air in a chariot drawn by demons when Peter and Paul knelt down and prayed, and their prayers brought him to earth a mangled corpse.

The vir triumphalis entered the city in his chariot through the Porta Triumphalis, which was only opened for these occasions.

In the 5th century BC, the triumphator Furius Camillus was sent into exile after he drove a chariot with a team of four white horses ( quadriga )— an honour reserved for Jupiter himself.

The Minister of the Household was in charge of the emperor's security within the palace grounds, external imperial parks and wherever the emperor made an outing by chariot.

Their former habit of a mantle with black and white or brown and white stripes — the black or brown stripes representing the scorches the mantle of Elijah received from the fiery chariot as it fell from his shoulders — was discarded and they wore the same habit as the Dominicans, except that the cloak was white.

Though physically strong, he was mentally lazy, and his chief interest was in sport: taking part in horse racing, chariot racing, and combats with beasts and men, mostly in private but also on occasion in public.

Kaikeyi, who was acting as Dasaratha's charioteer, quickly repaired the broken wheel and then drove the chariot away from the battle field.

A disciplined army could diverge as the chariot approached, and then re-form quickly behind it, allowing the chariot to pass without causing many casualties.

At the last seconds before the chariots would close with infantry, the phalangites would quickly fold into an enveloping formation in the shape of an E, where the middle tab would be the chariot.

The chariot belonging to Morgan Mwynfawr (" the Wealthy ") is described as a magical vehicle which would quickly reach whatever destination one might wish to go to.

Nakula then quickly ascended Bhima's chariot and, as Arjuna came near, asked him for help.

Heston, an experienced horseman, took daily three-hour lessons in chariot driving after he arrived in Rome and picked up the skill quickly.

Monteleone is famous for one of the world's great archaeological finds: a 6th ‑ century BC Etruscan chariot that quickly followed the path of money and by the early 20th century had already wound up in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

The quadriga was adopted in ancient Roman chariot racing.

The squadron was named the " County of Chester " and adopted the motto " Alifero tollitur axe ceres "; which translates as " Ceres rising in a winged chariot ".

Ajax, assisted by Menelaus, succeeds in fighting off the Trojans and taking the body back with his chariot ; however, the Trojans had already stripped Patroclus of Achilles ' armor.

The chariot is drawn by four living creatures each having four faces ( of a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle ), and four wings.

File: Model of a chariot from the Oxus Treasure by Nickmard Khoey. jpg | Room 52-A chariot from the Oxus Treasure, most important surviving collection of Achaemenid Persian metalwork, circa 5th to 4th century BC

The chariot originated with the Sintashta-Petrovka culture in Central Asia and spread by nomadic or semi-nomadic Indo-Iranians.

Suetonius reports that other senators were degraded by being forced to wait on him and run beside his chariot.

A Christian mob possibly led by parabalani, however, grabbed Hypatia out of her chariot and brutally murdered her, hacking her body apart and burning the pieces outside the city walls.

One traditional depiction of the cherubim and chariot vision, based on the description by Ezekiel.

On the mantel he painted an image of Diana riding in a chariot possibly pulled by a stag.

In July 592 BCE, at the age of 30, Ezekiel describes his calling to be a prophet, by going into great detail about his encounter with God who rode upon a chariot of four wheels guided by Cherubs.

S. Ukasha, 51One traditional depiction of the cherubim and chariot vision, based on the description by Ezekiel.

Freyja is the owner of the necklace Brísingamen, rides a chariot pulled by two cats, owns the boar Hildisvíni, possesses a cloak of falcon feathers, and, by her husband Óðr, is the mother of two daughters, Hnoss and Gersemi.

Fricka rides a chariot in this illustration by Arthur Rackham to Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen.

Ajax gives Hector his girdle, which will later be used to attach Hector's corpse to Achilles ' chariot by which he is dragged around the walls of Troy.

Hector goes down, hit by a stone thrown by Ajax, but Apollo arrives from Olympus and infuses strength into " the shepherd of the people ", who orders a chariot attack, with Apollo clearing the way.