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Author | : David Bomgardner |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2013-07-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113470738X |
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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 |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2007-09-10 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780521809443 |
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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 |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2008-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780746093443 |
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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 | : Fiona Macdonald |
Publisher | : Scribo |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-03-17 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781910184806 |
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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 | : Keith Hopkins |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2012-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674063597 |
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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 | : Peter Connolly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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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 | : Caroline Lawrence |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2005-10 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781596430747 |
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Suspecting their friend Jonathan is alive, Flavia, Nubia, and Lupus go to Rome for the Colosseum Games, facing wild beasts, criminals, conspirators, and gladiators, and where Nubia is called upon to make a terrible choice.
Author | : David L. Bomgardner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Amphitheaters |
ISBN | : 9781138850705 |
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"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 | : Raymond G. Chase |
Publisher | : Peter Randall Pub |
Total Pages | : 646 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781931807081 |
Download Ancient Hellenistic and Roman Amphitheatres, Stadiums, and Theatres Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the first collection of pictures of almost all the ancient theatres, odeons, bouleuterions, stadiums, and amphitheatres in existence. Sure to give enjoyment to the armchair traveler, this clothbound volume is also an essential reference for all those interested in ancient architecture. The purpose of this book is to tempt similar-minded others with a passionate bent toward Hellenistic and Roman theatres and amphitheatres (and temples, aqueducts, bridges, and triumphal arches) to drive the borders of the Mediterranean and revel in and marvel at these ancient glories. It was the pleasure of the drive through these beautiful and generally hospitable countries almost as much as the "discovery" of ruins that beguiled the author and his wife to compile the collection.
Author | : Augustine J. O'Reilly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : Christian martyrs |
ISBN | : |
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