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Title: THE COLOSSEUM
By: Keith Hopkins, Mary Beard
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 1846684706
ISBN 13: 9781846684708
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Publisher: PROFILE BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 1 April, 2011
Edition: Main
Pages: 224
Translated from: English
Description: The Colosseum was Imperial Rome's monument to warfare. The author tells 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, and the emperors who staged them and the critics.
Synopsis: 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.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Profile Books Ltd
Returns: Returnable
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