The Colosseum in Rome -- the largest amphitheatre built in the Roman empire. Photograph: Francesco Survara/Alamy
Posted on 09/01/2011 6:43:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists say they have located and excavated the ruins of a huge amphitheatre used to train gladiators east of Vienna, describing it as a "sensational discovery".
They claim that the ruins found through ground radar measurements rival the Colosseum and the Ludus Magnus in Rome in their structure. The Ludus Magnus is the largest of the gladiatorial arenas in the Italian capital, while the Colosseum is the largest amphitheatre ever built in the Roman empire.
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The Colosseum in Rome -- the largest amphitheatre built in the Roman empire. Photograph: Francesco Survara/Alamy
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how many did the Romans build?
Upon reading the headline I envisioned the original cast of SNL doing an improvisation of Viennese gladiators.
What the crap? It’s been excavated and there’s no photos? We get a pic of the colosseum instead? pffffffft (fail!)
Has there been any testing of the outhouse location for
traces of steroids?
What ???
No Gladiator pics ???
Russell Crowe won Best Actor...
Do the girls a favor
:)
Vienna sausage? Little do you know.
I tried to post a pic of Russell Crowe, but he threw a whole telephone at me.
Training Germans to be shipped to Rome for their viewing pleasure?
The games were everywhere. They were (and mostly still are) said to have Etruscan origins. There’s an Etruscan tomb painting showing a mostly naked man, unable to see because of the bag tied over his head, trying to defend himself against a brace of vicious dogs. Now *that’s* entertainment. The Etruscans had these things as part of their funerary rites, and early on (late republic, early empire) these types of combat were indeed held in honor of eminent people who had died. The arena was called the spectaculum (or somethin’ similar) and the spectacles held there were quite varied (acts we’d associate with circuses; parades of exotic animals; parades of exotic human captives) until the death by combat thing became so popular. Politicians would underwrite games just to get themselves known and liked enough to win office.
Oooh, nice! Thanks!
So, ya like men in skirts, eh? ;”)
Kilts, gladiator costumes, anything to see those gastrocnemius muscles! Woo Eee!
You could make a good case that modern Hollywood has revived the fight to the death games. It’s just done today with special effects.
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