Some Observations on Roman Chariot-Racing . Revised November 4, 2016. Please mail peter at this domain.Please mail peter. Contents. Introduction. The chariots. The sparsores. The riders. Tools on the track. Charioteers and the law. The Reds and the Whites. The capacity of the Circus Maximus. Claques in the circus? Appendix: Sidonius’s account of a. Notes. Despite the prominence of chariot racing in the popular view. Roman life (and indeed in Roman life itself), the literature in English remains. Alan Cameron’s Circus Factions (1. For how races were actually conducted, we must. J. H. Humphrey’s Roman Circuses: Arenas for Chariot Racing, a large, beautifully illustrated volume that marshals all the evidence available. In the following essay, references to numbered. Humphrey’s book. Little of the evidence is in literary form; most surviving. The best actual narrative of a race is from the. Sidonius Apollinaris (see Appendix). Y - Clinched Division x - Clinched Playoff Berth. 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Oldsmobile in a road rally. Racing models? Surviving figurines. He is sometimes. shown (as in fig. The driver could also brace a knee against the dashboard or. Even allowing for the artists’ need to compress space, it is. Sidonius speaks of them. We can certainly dismiss as fiction, or even movie blooper. Both chariots would surely be involved in calamity the instant any projection. Some ancient circus scenes show figures on foot inside the. They are dressed in short tunics, often bound by broad girdles. The vessel is shown in various forms: most often as a double- handled amphora, but sometimes as a shallow bowl (figs. He thinks it “conceivable” that they are. Fik Meijer, following M. Indeed, the Digest of Roman law places “those who sprinkle water on horses” in the same class as charioteers, athletes, and dancers, and a veterinary work suggests that a small amount of water applied to a horse’s nostrils was considered effective against a cough, brought on by the heat and dust of the circus. Basil says that. water was poured into the mouths of the panting horses on the track, but he may be thinking of the refreshment. Note the amphora on the track, suggesting that the other horses have already been so treated. Another attendant raises his right hand in a characteristic gesture seemingly associated with victory. Magic was a large. Christian times. Surviving. In his Life of. Hilarion, Jerome tells the following story about a certain Italicus, who was. Italicus therefore came to the blessed Hilarion and besought his. The latter took it and sprinkled it over his stable and. The signal is given; the one team flies towards the goal, the other. After this the opponents in their. Hilarion as a Christian magician should be dragged to. This decisive victory and several others which followed in. Apotropaic magic was certainly not considered a capital crime. Yet the crowd bays for. Hilarion’s blood—is it solely because he is a Christian magician? Unfortunately. the anecdote raises more questions than it answers about whether the sparsores. It remains puzzling how the sprinkling was actually done. In the Lyons mosaic (fig. But we see other figures with a flask raised in the right hand while the left hand hangs idle (fig. Silin mosaic—the figure at the center of the far turn, not clearly shown in this reproduction). In no case where the vessel is a narrow- necked amphora or bottle do we get any sense of how the liquid was dispensed, or for that matter how the vessel could be quickly refilled at the pool in the central barrier, presuming that this was necessary. Cyprus. These representations raise the question of whether attendants on foot performed other duties having to do with managing the horses. I very much doubt that the charioteers would need or welcome such intervention during the race, but the attendant in the Carthage mosaic is standing in front of a team that is apparently being reined in, perhaps after completing the course or dropping out, unless it is actually being held back by the driver so that the sparsor can do a proper job. Whatever the sparsores were doing, it must have been. Gerona mosaic, shows a trace horse. Another sparsor is. The seven eggs at this end of the spina. I am inclined to accept Thuillier’s conclusion that their dangerous work was regarded as essential to the health of the horses, and that a skilled sparsor might become a celebrity himself, as evidenced by the Carthage statue. The sparsores are not the only mysterious figures. We frequently see one or more figures on. There is a particularly striking example in fig. Campana. plaque in the British Museum (shown below), where a horseman dressed like a. In most other representations these. Often they raise a hand, palm up, in what is. The driver has the reins wrapped around his waist. There are always fewer riders than chariots, except on some. If the riders belonged to the factions, probably there were four of. There is no reason to believe. Calgary Stampede and other rodeos, who have. Presumably. they had some system to coordinate the teams of a faction in setting the pace. But we also see riders looking forward while galloping in front of a. Piazza Armerina. mosaic, figs. The. overall impression is that they had no obligation to keep up with a particular. Mosaic from Carthage, also shown in Humphrey, fig. The. charioteer at the upper right bears the victory palm and is accompanied by a. We see a sparsor bearing an amphora and whip, and the feet of. But I think the prominence the mounted figures are given in. Consider the vignette on the Campana. You could argue that he is a referee wearing standard safety gear, but it. A similar conclusion can be reached from the. A funerary relief, probably from Ostia. Finally, Cassiodorus, writing in the sixth century, speaks. Harris. suggests), we can perhaps imagine special heralds entertaining the crowd. But the mounted figures we see in the art (with the possible. Humphrey does not show the full panel. The few writers who have taken note of these images have suggested that the tool, if that’s what it is, was used in track maintenance. It seems unlikely, however, that a tool used for routine upkeep of the track would be included in a scene of thrilling action. If the object is indeed an ax of some kind, it might instead be a piece of rescue gear, used to cut free an entangled charioteer, to separate the chariot from the team so that the track could be cleared, and to dispatch injured horses. The British Museum curator’s comments for the relief shown in Humphrey’s fig. As far as I know, this is the only occurrence of such an object in the surviving art. If the Museum’s interpretation is correct, it suggests that the top layer of the track was patched up during races, probably at some risk to those doing the work. It also raises the possibility that the aforementioned tool is a rake of some kind, although the shape does not suggest such an identification. Whatever these objects are, their inclusion in the iconography was surely meant to evoke aspects of the danger and excitement of the race. The professional careers of famous drivers are well. As entertainers they. Late Romans. At. the same time, they were celebrities, pictured on billboards all over the city. For instance, the. In 3. 66 the arrest of the charioteer Philoromus sparked a riot against. Rome that had to be sternly suppressed. The incident had tremendous consequences: for the first time an emperor. We can be sure. that succeeding rulers did their best to avoid prosecuting charioteers. The special treatment expected by charioteers would seem to. Upon those men who perform. However, it. beggars belief that any class of people, let alone underworld figures, should. It has therefore been suggested. Oxford Latin Dictionary) or be emended to propter, which can mean “near” or “hard by.” Thus the law would mean that no (capital) punishment was to be dealt out to charioteers at the circus. Another meaning of propter is “on account of,” giving a reading something like. A decree of 4. 03 forbids breadmakers to escape their. An even more intriguing law. Any person suspected of magical practices, thunders the Code. He also shows that the minor colors. Red with Green and White with. Blue. Nothing suggests the existence of separate Red and White stables in Constantinople. Sidonius shows, paired chariots would cooperate but. In larger races the arrangement is necessarily more. Take the race of twelve chariots, three from each color. Two of. these must be considered second and third string, and their primary job is to. Is there a similar commonality of. It is sheer guesswork, but I think that the White and Red. Blue and Green factions, must have regarded. Even if cooperation. Sidonius. The capacity of the Circus Maximus. In the first century CE, the encyclopedist Pliny the Elder wrote that the Circus Maximus. More recently, however, a team at the Ausonius Institute in France has created a digital model of the fourth- century Circus, which has. Using Humphrey’s figure of 4. Given the uncertainty of the parameters, however, they commit themselves only to a range of 6. His sole evidence appears to be a brief and somewhat murky passage. Ammianus Marcellinus. Before looking at the text he cites, we should question. We know that. they plied their trade in the theaters, just as they have done in modern times. In the Roman. empire, where theatrical performances were often competitive, the claques would. But in chariot racing, victory and. Competitors are performing. Here is the Latin, followed by J. C. Walter Hamilton omits the paragraph from his abridged. Id enim nunc repertum est pro sonitu laudum impensiore. The sense seems to be that instead of the usual lavish (impensior)applause, the audiences at various spectacles now single out victorious. Let those people. That’ll teach ’em!” The magistrates (iudices). The matrons are presumably these men’s wives. What of the applicatos homines ad plaudendum?
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