Sultan Ahmet Square in Istanbul, Turkey, is the former site of the famed Hippodrome of Constantine, where chariots once furiously raced. Games likewise formed an important religious role in the ...

EXCAVATIONS AT THE HIPPODROME, CONSTANTINOPLE ... the Persians at Plataea in 479 B.C., and was brought from Delphi by Constantine. It is interesting to note that an examination of these three ...