Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey while the hippodrome was an arena built by a Roman emperor who conquered ancient Constantinople in 203 CE. THE Hippodrome of Constantinople was an ancient ...

Recovered from the Hippodrome of Constantine ... His warnings were in vain. By the fifth century, chariot racing in Constantinople underwent an evolution: As Christianity stabilized, the ...

Gladiatorial contests had mostly died out by the sixth century, but most cities ... The biggest of all was right in Constantinople. It was called the Hippodrome. It was about four times the ...

Successful racers who survived could grow enormously wealthy—another Roman poet, Martial, grumbled in the first century ... outside Constantinople’s chariot racing track, the Hippodrome ...

EXCAVATIONS AT THE HIPPODROME, CONSTANTINOPLE.—Mr. S. Casson in Discovery for March surveys the progress which has been made in the excavation of the Hippodrome at Constantinople in the two ...

During the course of the fifth century ... Constantinople, most were either fans of the Blues or the Greens. The late Alan Cameron recorded a history of these circus factions in the Roman ...

474-491), British classicist Crawford, a specialist in Late Antiquity, uses the life of the man to help examine the convoluted history of the Roman Empire in the Fifth Century ... whom actually ...

Previously named Constantinople, the city served as the imperial capital of the Byzantium (Eastern Roman) eras (330–1204 and 1261–1453). The hippodrome was an arena located in what is now ...