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The objective of Team Byzantine is a 2011 attempt on the Flying Kilometer Landspeed record here in Britain.. with a Harley Davidson V-Rod Byzantine …
Byzantine Chariot Racing – Sports Without Gladiators - Rob ...
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Byzantine Chariot Racing – The Leader in Byzantine Sports. For most of the empire’s history, chariot racing was the most popular entertainment. The races took place in the Hippodrome of Constantinople. Other large cities, especially Antioch, had racetracks as well. Do not confuse the Hippodrome with modern horse racing, however.
Chariot Racing - Byzantine Era
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Chariot racing in the Byzantine Empire also included the Roman racing clubs, which continued to play a prominent role in these public exhibitions. By this time, the Blues ( Vénetoi) and the Greens ( Prásinoi) had come to overshadow the other two factions of the Whites ( Leukoí) and Reds ( Roúsioi ), while still maintaining the paired ...
Chariot racing - Wikipedia
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Byzantine Sports – A Number of Choices - Rob Bauer Books
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Byzantine racing featured the interesting practice of the diversium. After a chariot racer won a race, he could challenge a loser to a rematch. The winner and loser would then switch chariot teams. (The winner raced with the loser’s team, and vice versa.) If the winner of the first race won again, this was obvious proof of his superiority and ...
Sports in the Byzantine Empire - Hagia Sophia History
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In addition, Byzantine racing included a feature not recorded in other cultures. Known as the diversium, it provided an opportunity for the winner of a race in the morning to challenge the loser to a re-match in the afternoon, with horses and chariots exchanged. In this manner, the doubly-successful charioteer could demonstrate that his wins ...
Sports and Games in the Eastern Roman (‘Byzantine’) …
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In addition, Byzantine racing included a feature not recorded in other cultures. Known as the diversium, it provided an opportunity for the winner of a race in the morning to challenge the loser to a re-match in the afternoon, with horses and chariots exchanged. In this manner, the doubly-successful charioteer could demonstrate that his wins ...
The Nika Riots. How a chariot race sparked off the… | by ...
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Chariot Racing in the Byzantine Empire. Chariot racing was a popular diversion for Roman and Byzantine citizens. Drivers belonged to factions that were color-coded for ease of recognition. Teammates could collaborate in races and skilled drivers were bought and sold to different teams, much like professional athletes today. ...
Blue versus Green: Rocking the Byzantine Empire | …
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“The organization of chariot racing in the great hippodrome of Byzantine Constantinople,” in The International Journal of Sports History 17 (2000); Geoffrey Greatrex, “The Nika Revolt: A ...
How Chariot Racing Teams Saved Constantinople From …
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Chariot Racing “ludi circenses” was one of the foremost sports of the Roman and Byzantine Empire, where competing teams would race either in four-horse chariots (quadrigae), or two-horse chariots (bigae) around a hippodrome or circus. The Roman’s imitated the sport from the ancient Greeks, turning the races into a grand spectator event ...
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