Scorpus began racing as a teenager in the outer provinces of the Roman Empire, arriving at the Circus Maximus — Rome's biggest stadium and racetrack — in A.D. 90, when he was about 21 years old.

ROME'S CHARIOT SUPERSTAR focuses on the end of the first century AD, when the race-mad Roman emperor Domitian presided over one of the most popular and lucrative eras in sports history. Scorpus ...

Chariot racer Flavius Scorpus has won hundreds of races while watching his friends and rivals die on the track. Now, the stakes, and the risks, are about to escalate as the charioteer performs on ...

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Scorpus' feats -- and the pulse-pounding risks of charioteering -- are featured in the Smithsonian Channel's new two-part documentary series "Rome's Chariot Superstar." ...