Chariot with four horses Chariot with four horses, marble bas-relief from the ancient agora of Athens. © Galina Mikhalishina/Shutterstock.comFrom four to six chariots competed in a single race, normally consisting of seven laps around the circus. The racing chariots were light, fragile affairs, easily smashed in a collision, in which case the driver was often entangled in the long reins and dragged to death or seriously injured.Under the Roman Empire, the chariot teams were organized into four principal factions, each managed by a different association of contractors and each distinguished by a different colour: red, white, blue, and green.

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Enthusiasm for the favourite colour often led to disorder; Juvenal, the Roman satirist of the 1st and 2nd centuries ad, said that, if the greens lost, the whole city would be downcast, as if some great national defeat had occurred. In the later Empire these factions played a part in political and (after Christianization) religious controversies. Bejeweled stars levels. Under Justinian, the blues were identified with Orthodoxy and the greens with Monophysitism, a heretical doctrine.

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