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Archaeologists uncover amphitheatre used to train gladiators near Vienna
Guardian UK ^ | Tuesday, August 30, 2011 | Associated Press

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: austria; godsgravesglyphs; neversausageaplace; romanempire
The Colosseum in Rome -- the largest amphitheatre built in the Roman empire. Photograph: Francesco Survara/Alamy

Archaeologists uncover amphitheatre used to train gladiators near Vienna

1 posted on 09/01/2011 6:43:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...

 GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach
I never sausage a place in my life.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


2 posted on 09/01/2011 6:45:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

how many did the Romans build?


3 posted on 09/01/2011 6:46:17 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: SunkenCiv

Upon reading the headline I envisioned the original cast of SNL doing an improvisation of Viennese gladiators.


4 posted on 09/01/2011 6:53:28 PM PDT by Domestic Church (AMDG...)
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To: SunkenCiv

What the crap? It’s been excavated and there’s no photos? We get a pic of the colosseum instead? pffffffft (fail!)


5 posted on 09/01/2011 6:55:17 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman (Palin/Perry, Perry/Palin, Palin or Perry, Perry or Palin. 2012 Any questions?)
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To: SunkenCiv

Has there been any testing of the outhouse location for
traces of steroids?


6 posted on 09/01/2011 7:02:12 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
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To: SunkenCiv

What ???

No Gladiator pics ???

Russell Crowe won Best Actor...

Do the girls a favor

:)


7 posted on 09/01/2011 7:13:36 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: SunkenCiv
I never sausage a place in my life.

Vienna sausage? Little do you know.

8 posted on 09/01/2011 7:52:21 PM PDT by decimon
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To: Tennessee Nana

I tried to post a pic of Russell Crowe, but he threw a whole telephone at me.


9 posted on 09/02/2011 4:09:59 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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10 posted on 09/02/2011 8:45:05 AM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Training Germans to be shipped to Rome for their viewing pleasure?


11 posted on 09/02/2011 12:46:52 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: SunkenCiv

12 posted on 09/02/2011 12:49:41 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: colorado tanker

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.


13 posted on 09/05/2011 7:46:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Revolting cat!

Oooh, nice! Thanks!


14 posted on 09/05/2011 7:46:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: TheOldLady

So, ya like men in skirts, eh? ;”)


15 posted on 09/05/2011 7:46:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Kilts, gladiator costumes, anything to see those gastrocnemius muscles! Woo Eee!


16 posted on 09/05/2011 8:01:47 PM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list.)
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To: SunkenCiv

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.


17 posted on 09/06/2011 12:52:45 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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