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Chariot racing was very big business in ancient Rome. There was a whole industry built around the factions, the four professional stables known by their team colour – Blue, Green, Red, and White –, providing all that was required for a race...

In ancient Rome, the legally acceptable age for marriage for girls was twelve. Although in middle-class Roman society, the most common age of first marriage for a girl was mid-to-late teens, evidence also shows that in a section of elite...

The Arch of Titus is a Roman Triumphal Arch which was erected by Domitian in c. 81 CE at the foot of the Palatine hill on the Via Sacra in the Forum Romanum, Rome. It commemorates the victories of his father Vespasian and brother Titus in...

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All too often, the Eastern perspective on the Trinity is mistakenly overlooked by Western society in the study of Church History. This is unfortunate, for men like Gregory of Nazianzus (329–390 CE) and John of Damascus (676–749 CE) offered...

The Olympic Games as we know them today began in April of 1896 in Athens, where the city welcomed 13 nations to compete, but this video is going way back to the year 776 BCE and it's going to explore the origin and history of the Ancient...

Marble relief (Block II) from the West frieze of the Parthenon. The frieze shows the procession of the Panathenaic festival, the commemoration of the birthday of the goddess Athena. Here two horsemen are shown reining back their horses...

This Panathenaic prize amphora shows a quadriga chariot drawn by four horses at full speed, with the white stele (marker) representing the finish line. This vase belongs to a distinctive type given as a prize to the winner of the chariot...

A few things are visible in this picture. The theatre of Dionysus Eleuthereus: Construction: 6th-4th century BCE The temple of Olympian Zeus to the left: Construction: 2nd century CE The Panathenaic Stadium to the far left: Construction...

This is a marble votive relief dedicated to the goddess Athena. Winged Victory flies down to place a laurel crown on a charioteer, perhaps a victor in the Panathenaic Games. Made in Athens, about 425 BCE. From Athens. (The British Museum...