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- Author: Keith Hopkins, Mary Beard
- Publisher: Profile
- Year: 2011
- Pages: 256
- ISBN: 9781847650450
- ISBN-10: 1847650457
- ISBN-13: 9781847650450
- Format: ePub
- Language: English
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The Colosseum was Imperial Rome's monument to warfare. Like a cathedral of death it towered over the city and invited its citizens, 50,000 at a time, to watch murderous gladiatorial games. It is now visited by two million visitors a year (Hitler was among them). Award winning classicist, Mary Beard with Keith Hopkins, tell the story of Rome's greatest arena: how it was built; the gladiatorial and other games that were held there; the training of the gladiators; the audiences who revelled in the games, the emperors who staged them and the critics. And the strange after story - the Colosseum has been fort, store, church, and glue factory.
- Author: Keith Hopkins, Mary Beard
- Publisher: Profile
- Year: 2011
- Pages: 256
- ISBN: 9781847650450
- ISBN-10: 1847650457
- ISBN-13: 9781847650450
- Format: ePub
- Language: English English
The Colosseum was Imperial Rome's monument to warfare. Like a cathedral of death it towered over the city and invited its citizens, 50,000 at a time, to watch murderous gladiatorial games. It is now visited by two million visitors a year (Hitler was among them). Award winning classicist, Mary Beard with Keith Hopkins, tell the story of Rome's greatest arena: how it was built; the gladiatorial and other games that were held there; the training of the gladiators; the audiences who revelled in the games, the emperors who staged them and the critics. And the strange after story - the Colosseum has been fort, store, church, and glue factory.
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