The story of a modern Eniochos, a young dreamer inspired by the ancient Charioteer of Delphi, spans five decades of Greek history: the period between 1941 and 1991. During WWII, the then ...

The Charioteer of Delphi is a bronze sculpture from ancient Greece, part of a larger group that included a chariot and horses. It was discovered in 1896 at the Sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi.

So much of ancient Greek culture—both art and literature—celebrates power, bold physicality and arrogant machismo, that it comes as a relief to find a figure like the Charioteer of Delphi, a ...

Once sacred, the Oracle at Delphi was lost for a millennium. See how it was found. Relying on clues from the past, a team of 19th-century archaeologists uncovered Delphi, the site where ancient ...

A social drama covering fifty years of Greece’s recent history, using the statue of the Delphi charioteer as a symbolic image, with the young hero embodied in a modern counterpart.

The so-called Charioteer of Delphi holds the reins in the Greek style. Credit: Rabe!/ Wikimedia Commons. From what we have just explained, it is clear how spectacular the races were and why they ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The celestial version of Ben Hur is wheeling a course high over our heads between 8 and 8: ...

Archaeologists in Siberia have discovered the untouched 3,000-year-old grave of a person thought to be a charioteer — indicating for the first time that horse-drawn chariots were used in the region.

The Charioteer, by Mary Renault, review. Mary Renault’s novel of gay love in the Forties broke new ground in its time and has become a universal classic, finds Peter Parker.