What is the meaning of the word charioteer for us today? It is rather a term that we seldom use and encounter, without particular significance in our lives.

Indeed, we neither see nor are concerned with chariot racing or even the transportation of people and goods by means of chariots. We would vaguely say that it refers to someone who holds the reins of the horses and guides them.

Perhaps we should consider that we have transferred the concept of the horse to our cars, which move with the horsepower of horses. The horses remain in our language only as a reminder of those horses that were the fastest means of transport for people in ancient times.