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The Colosseum by Mary Beard, Keith Hopkins
The Colosseum

Mary Beard, Keith Hopkins

214 pages first pub 2005 (view editions)

nonfiction history travel informative slow-paced
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Imperial Rome was a warrior state. The Colosseum (opened in A.D. 80) was 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 vi...

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