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The Colosseum Paperback / softback - 2011
by Keith Hopkins
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- Title The Colosseum
- Author Keith Hopkins
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition Paperback
- Condition New
- Pages 239
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Profile Books(GB)
- Date 2011-06-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9781846684708
- ISBN 9781846684708 / 1846684706
- Dewey Decimal Code 725.827
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Summary
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.