The Roman Amphitheatre

Author : David Bomgardner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113470738X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Roman Amphitheatre written by David Bomgardner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman amphitheatre was a site both of bloody combat and marvellous spectacle, symbolic of the might of Empire; to understand the importance of the amphitheatre is to understand a key element in the social and political life of the Roman ruling classes. Generously illustrated with 141 plans and photographs, The Story of the Roman Amphitheatre offers a comprehensive picture of the origins, development, and eventual decline of the most typical and evocative of Roman monuments. With a detailed examination of the Colosseum, as well as case studies of significant sites from Italy, Gaul, Spain and Roman North Africa, the book is a fascinating gazetteer for the general reader as well as a valuable tool for students and academics.

Author : Katherine E. Welch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521809443
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman Amphitheatre written by Katherine E. Welch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to analyze the evolution of the Roman amphitheatre as an architectural form. Katherine Welch addresses the critical period in the history of this building type: its origins and dissemination under the Republic, from the third to first centuries BC; its monumentalization as an architectural form under Augustus; and its canonization as a building type with the Colosseum (AD 80). The study then shifts focus to the reception of the amphitheatre in the Greek East, a part of the Empire deeply fractured about the new realities of Roman rule.

Author : Iain Ashman
Publisher : Usborne Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780746093443
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Make This Roman Amphitheatre written by Iain Ashman and published by Usborne Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brand new edition of the Cut-out Roman Ampitheatre. Each page contains pieces which children can cut-out and glue to create the amphitheatre itself, as well as the inhabitants of the amphitheatre including gladiators and senators. Ages 8+

Author : Keith Hopkins
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674063597
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Colosseum written by Keith Hopkins and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byron and Hitler were equally entranced by Rome’s most famous monument, the Colosseum. Mid-Victorians admired the hundreds of varieties of flowers in its crannies and occasionally shuddered at its reputation for contagion, danger, and sexual temptation. Today it is the highlight of a tour of Italy for more than three million visitors a year, a concert arena for the likes of Paul McCartney, and a national symbol of opposition to the death penalty. Its ancient history is chock full of romantic but erroneous myths. There is no evidence that any gladiator ever said “Hail Caesar, those about to die...” and we know of not one single Christian martyr who met his finish here. Yet the reality is much stranger than the legend as the authors, two prominent classical historians, explain in this absorbing account. We learn the details of how the arena was built and at what cost; we are introduced to the emperors who sometimes fought in gladiatorial games staged at the Colosseum; and we take measure of the audience who reveled in, or opposed, these games. The authors also trace the strange afterlife of the monument—as fortress, shrine of martyrs, church, and glue factory. Why are we so fascinated with this arena of death?

Author : David L. Bomgardner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138850705
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Roman Amphitheatre written by David L. Bomgardner and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This thoroughly updated and enlarged edition illuminates the epic story of the birth, early development, widespread flourishing and slow decline of that most typical Roman monument, the amphitheatre. This lucid and accessible work, lavishly illustrated with plans and photographs, breaks new ground with the incorporation of sociological, psychological, historical and even ecological material into the study of the amphitheatre. A more varied and wider ranging series of case studies provides the backbone of this new edition. They are included either because of their own intrinsic importance (Corinth, Pergamon, Trier, Chester), because they have been recently reinvestigated and well reported (Fréjus, Mérida), because they have been excavated and thoroughly published (Saintes, Augst, Avenches, Virunum), or have only been discovered in the past two decades (London, Virunum, Córdoba and Cartagena). This volume is a valuable reference work for students and scholars of Roman history and architecture, and this new updated edition will bring this topic to a new generation of readers"--

Author : Peter Connolly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colosseum written by Peter Connolly and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Colosseum in Rome is one of the world's most amazing buildings. Built over 10 years during the reign of the Emperor Vespasiano in c. 72AD, at 160 feet high this immense oval stadium was home to the most violent and deadly spectator sports in history, and the making of many 'gladiator' heroes. Using state-of-the-art computer graphics, Colosseum brings the world of Ancient Rome to life and shows how and why this most extraordinary of human monuments was built. New research debunks the myths perpetuated in the film Gladiator and helps us understand the nature of these games - why the chariot races of Gladiator could not have happened within the Colosseum walls, for instance. Here for the first time, new evidence reveals exactly how the Colosseum was regularly flooded with water for the spectacle of deadly sea battles.

Author : Fiona Macdonald
Publisher : Scribo
ISBN 13 : 9781910184806
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman Colosseum written by Fiona Macdonald and published by Scribo. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated survey of the construction and history of the Colosseum, the enormous oval amphitheater that has stood in Rome for 1,900 years.

Author : Augustine J. O'Reilly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
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Download or read book The Martyrs of the Coliseum written by Augustine J. O'Reilly and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tony Wilmott
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
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Download or read book Roman Amphitheatres and Spectacula, a 21st -century Perspective written by Tony Wilmott and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers from the conference held by The Friends of the Whithorn Trust in Whithorn on September 15th 2007 This book includes papers from the international conference held at Chester, England, in February 2007 on Roman Amphitheatres and Spectacular.

Author : David Bomgardner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134707398
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Roman Amphitheatre written by David Bomgardner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman amphitheatre was a site both of bloody combat and marvellous spectacle, symbolic of the might of Empire; to understand the importance of the amphitheatre is to understand a key element in the social and political life of the Roman ruling classes. Generously illustrated with 141 plans and photographs, The Story of the Roman Amphitheatre offers a comprehensive picture of the origins, development, and eventual decline of the most typical and evocative of Roman monuments. With a detailed examination of the Colosseum, as well as case studies of significant sites from Italy, Gaul, Spain and Roman North Africa, the book is a fascinating gazetteer for the general reader as well as a valuable tool for students and academics.