Exempel på chariot

• Around 2000 BCE the Egyptians started using spokes on their chariot wheels. 

• By 500 BCE, many types of wheeled vehicles were in use, from fast chariots to large, slow carts. 

• Chariot races were an important part of the Greek Olympic Games. 

• The Ancient Greeks and Romans loved watching high-speed chariot races. 

• There were fast chariots to fight in wars, slow carts to carry food and other goods, and comfortable carriages for rich people to get around in. 

• Chariots, drawn by four horses and containing soldiers armed with spears and javelins and archers, were much in use. 

• From one of these chariots alighted several venerable men, their hair whitened with age. 

• His chariot was overturned "with a hideous crash" at such danger to himself, "that he did not believe he should ever hazard himself again in any sort of wheel carriage." 

• So saying, Pluto pulled at the reins, and stopped the chariot right between the tall, massive pillars of the gateway. 

• They walked along the road where once they used to ride in their chariot. 

• Here, fragments of a group of polychrome figurines in frit were discovered, representing two male figures, a horse's head and a chariot.

• Then, with musicians and attendants, she too boarded her chariot.

• Others were jostling for a chance of pulling the chariot, for this is deemed to be an act of religious merit.

• The dance was halted twice when the chariots passed.

• It seems, therefore, that in the strategies of display of which these tombs testify, chariot scenes were not of importance.

• His chapter on gambling is the best (practically the only) modern account and includes a convincing reconstruction of how to bet on the chariot races.

• There were presumably catwalks from which performers mounted chariots and cloud machines, but at what heights we can only guess.

• Only two of the amphoroid kraters from funerary contexts showed chariot scenes.

• The most frequent theme, however, is the chariot scene, showing a two-wheeled chariot, usually accompanied by a procession of men (figure 7).

• One of the earliest images of the self was that of a chariot.

• One can plausibly sing while flying through the air in a divine chariot.

• A little while after the chariots passed the first time, it began to rain.

• He is put on horses, on chariots, on thrones.

• The king bowed respectfully to the goddess in red as she rode her chariot drawn by devotees to see the festival.

• It also transformed aspects of the play's content: this was no mythical world where flying chariots could rescue heroes.