Chariot Racing

  • I’m wading through backlogs of email and things that I meant to post, but didn’t, and then they got lost because the stupid iPad gmail app didn’t mark them properly, yadda yadda yadda, so here’s one from last March (!) in Smithsonian Magazine: Blue versus Green: Rocking the Byzantine Empire

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  • Looted Hippodrome Relief

    I watched the Seven Wonders of Ancient Rome (see next post) in the hopes that it might go into some detail about chariot racing … it does, but doesn’t mention what I hoped it would as a sort of introduction to this piece. Ages ago (indeed, I’m sure she’s given up on me) Dorothy King…

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