object

Chariot

Objects

A named light wheeled fighting and parade vehicle of Bronze Age and later practice. Not a wagon, not a hodometer, and not a published wheel alone.

Also known as War chariot · Horse chariot

Hellenic religion

  • Chariot appears in Hellenic religion.

    The Iliad names the chariot, the light war-cart of Achaean and Trojan fighting, throughout the poem. A named Hellenic vehicle in that epic, not a wagon and not a published wheel alone.

    from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Iliad · Homer

    Homer, Iliad.