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The Colosseum

Name: The Colosseum
Author: Mary Beard, Keith Hopkins

Mary Beard, Keith Hopkins

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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte

Beschreibung

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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s excellent Wonders of the World series ... it brings the Colosseum to life in all its gory splendour.
Brilliant ... arguably the best so far in Profile'

A wonderful book, worthy of its subject: horrifying, impressive, blood-soaked, occasionally very funny and always entertaining

t know - to put the fabulous monument in context from its founding to the present.
Stirring stuff! This is a welcome and well-written book ... it reassesses myths, politely debunks many misconceptions about what we know- and what we don'

A work of scholarship written with the general reader in mind ... a pleasure to read.

What the authors have given us in the proverbial <i>multum in parvo</i>

Revels in the accretions of detail and myth ... first-class scholarship and an engagingly demotic style

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