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 8:30 p.m.

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 sculpture ...

This magnificent bronze statue of a charioteer is in the Delphi Museum, and commemorates a victory in the chariot races at Delphi in the 470s BC. The Games there, held in honour of the god Apollo, ...