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Equestrian Events Hippikos Agon Tethrippon (four-horse chariot) 680- Keles (horseback) 648- Apene (mule-cart race) 500-444 Kalpe (horseback and running)

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1 Equestrian Events Hippikos Agon Tethrippon (four-horse chariot) 680- Keles (horseback) 648- Apene (mule-cart race) 500-444 Kalpe (horseback and running) 496-444 Synoris (two-horse chariot) 408- Poloi (races for foals) tethrippon polikon 384 synoris polikon 264 keles polikon 256

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6 Lasted only 14 Olympiads

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9 Chariot Race of Pelops Detail from an Athenian red-figure clay vase, about 410 BC. Arezzo, Museo Nazionale Archeologico 1460

10 The chariot-race from the funerary games in honor of Patroclus. Depicted on an Attic black-figure goblet, the work of Sophilus, ca. 580-570 BC. Found in Pharsala. Athens, National Archaeological Museum. Ministry of Culture, Archaeological Resources Fund. See Arete #1 Who wins?

11 Chariot Race Diomedes Antilochos Menelaos Meriones Eumelos

12 Chariot Race at Patroclus ’ Funeral Francois Vase volute krater by Kleitias and Ergotimos ca. 575 BC Florence Archaeological Museum

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14 See Miller #50 for description

15 Aphesis Altar with Eagle Dolphin Taraxippos Kampter (Hippodamia) but no spina Hippodrome Features

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17 Hippodromen at Olympia

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22 Chariot race in Sophocles’ Electra: Arete #49

23 Aristocrats and Racing: Aristophanes’ Clouds See Arete #47

24 The Charioteer of Delphi Polyzalos of Gela Victor in the 470s (478 or 474) ‘Polyzalos, victorious with his horses (chariot) dedicated me / son of Deinomenes, whom make prosper, honoured Apollo’ ‘Polyzalos, lord of Gela, dedicated (this) memorial …’ which was erased, presumably because of his claim to Gela (a Greek colony in Sicily) and embarrassment over his tyranny.

25 Cast in seven separate pieces of bronze. The sculpture was Sotades. The statue is 1.8 m high. His eyes are made of onyx. The lips are made of copper. His head band is impressed in silver. The left hand is missing. So are the chariot and the horses.

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28 Note the taenia knot.

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35 Other famous victors: Alcibiades of Athens: Entered 7 teams in 416 and won 1, 2, 3, and 4 place Kyniska of Sparta (Arete #97b) Pheidolas and Breeze (Arete 51) Nero the Emperor postponed games from 65 to 67 so he could compete with 10-horse team


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