THE COLOSSEUM: WHAT ROME WAS REALLY WILLING TO BUILD
Episode 17 | Human History — Civilizations & Empires
In this History episode we focus on the Colosseum — the most sophisticated entertainment venue in the ancient world, built to hold 80,000 spectators, with a retractable awning, underground trap doors, and machinery to raise animals and fighters from below — built to watch people die, and a monument to a specific relationship between power and entertainment that has not disappeared from human civilization.
This episode covers the engineering achievement, what the gladiatorial games actually were and what gladiators' lives looked like, the…
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