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The Colosseum in Rome is one of the world's most amazing buildings. Built over 10 years during the reign of the Emperor Vespasiano in c. 72AD, at 160 feet high this immense oval stadium was home to the most violent and deadly spectator sports in history, and the making of many 'gladiator' heroes. Using state-of-the-art computer graphics, Colosseum brings the world of Ancient Rome to life and shows how and why this most extraordinary of human monuments was built. New research debunks the myths perpetuated in the film Gladiator and helps us understand the nature of these games - why the chariot races of Gladiator could not have happened within the Colosseum walls, for instance. Here for the first time, new evidence reveals exactly how the Colosseum was regularly flooded with water for the spectacle of deadly sea battles.

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Peter Connolly is an internationally respected writer and illustrator and an expert on the history and architecture of the Colosseum. He has studied at the British School in Athens and in Rome and is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Institute of Archaeology in London. His many other books include Greece and Rome at War, The Ancient Greece of Odysseus, The Roman Fort, Greek Legends, The Roman World, The Holy Land, The Jews in the Time of Jesus and (with Hazel Dodge) The Ancient City: Life in Classical Athens and Rome.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Behind-the-walls look at Rome's Flavian Amphitheatre, 20 April 2004

By	Mr. David Spinks "gardencoaster" (Kent, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you were disappointed with the BBC documentary programme of the same title, you should not be dissuaded from buying a copy of this book which achieves what television did not.

Whereas the TV focus was on the life of Verus the gladiator, the book's broad coverage of all aspects of the Roman games and the huge Flavian Amphitheatre we know as the Colosseum adds to ones understanding of not only the building but the gladiatorial combat and other displays within its arena.

I bought the book as background reading for the Classical Studies element of a university course in the Humanities and, despite the dismissive attitude of academics towards what they describe as "coffee table books", this work deserves greater respect. Certainly its lavish illustration complements a text that is easy to follow, even when describing construction materials and techniques.

Entertaining and educational, its portable size makes for ideal highbrow reading material even on the train and it won't take a lot of room up on your coffee table either.

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5.0 out of 5 stars TV not soooo bad....., 20 Feb 2009

By	A. WYKES "percypavilion" (Luxembourg) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

To be fair to the BBC, the tv programme is gripping and IDEAL for 13 year old Latin students; and yes, that's in a public-sector school. The book is magnificent for any level, however.

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