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The Colosseum, Paperback / softback Book

The Colosseum Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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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.

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