Colosseum

Name: Colosseum
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ISBN: 9780674018952

ISBN-10: 0674018958

ISBN-13: 9780674018952

Edition: 2005

Authors: Keith Hopkins, Mary Beard

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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 chockfull 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…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/14/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 4.75" wide x 7.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.660

Keith Hopkins is a professor of ancient history at King's College, Cambridge, & a fellow of the British Academy. He lives in Cambridge, England.

Mary Beard is a Professor of Classics at Cambridge and is a Fellow of Newnham College. She is general editor of the Wonders of the World series and author of The Parthenon.

Preface	p. vii
The Colosseum Now...	p. 1
...and Then	p. 21
The Killing Fields	p. 42
The People of the Colosseum	p. 75
Bricks and Mortar	p. 122
Life after Death	p. 149
Making a visit?	p. 182
Further reading	p. 189
List of illustrations	p. 204
List of figures	p. 207
Acknowledgements	p. 208
Index	p. 210
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