Architecture and Art

Rome History – The Colosseum

No type of building is more closely associated with the Roman empire than the amphitheater. However, the most important of them, the giant Flavian Amphitheater, or Colosseum, built between AD70 and 80, was the first permanent construction of this type. The emperors Gaius Caligula and Nero had loved gladiatorial games: these had been performed in temporary if lavishly decorated timber structures which...

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