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The races could be of Chariot of two, three, four, even more horses but the teams were four: factio albata (white), factio russata (red), factio prasina (Green), factio veneta (blue). The chariot races since the time of the kings took place in the Circus Maximus, the largest circus stable of empire, but some chariot races with three horses and horses ridden by men ran in other circuses and first one in Rome to have fixed character was the Flaminius Circus, in the eastern part of the Campus Martius.Ĭhariot races were held in relation to particular religious feasts usually, and you had to respect a ceremonial very precise: it began with a solemn procession (pump) that made the rounds of the circus around the spine and where you did the sacrifices to the gods, ultimately the factiones entered into the circus. The Ludi Circensian were always the most beloved games in ancient Rome, The legend tells that they were instituted by Romulus to the Consualia feast but chariot races were very popular already among the Greeks and the Etruscans, from which the Romans borrowed, and they were related to Pelops myth and to chariot race organized by Oenomaus that saw him winner and new king of the land that from him took the name of Peloponnesus. The Auriga were the heroes of the Ludi Circensian even before they were introduced Ludi Gladiators. the auriga were heroes beloved by the people and by powerful of Rome so that the Roman emperor of the of the Orient did depict the charioteer Porfirio on the base of one columns of spine of ByzantiumCircus built by Constantine.
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