Name: The Colosseum
Uploaded: 2023-04-13T02:02:05.000Z
Duration: 9 min 59 s
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and we're here to talk about the single-most famous monument

that has come down to us from Ancient Rome, the Colosseum.

and makes us think about instead the death

the very size of the ruins of Ancient Rome suggest

and almost sentimentality that, in a certain sense,

when you drill down and you study history,

you can see is really unwarranted because, at least for me,

the Coliseum has always been a horrific place

and not, in the end, my favorite building in ancient Rome.

This area was the center of a vast palace

and where you now see this massive building,

there was an artificial lake that Nero had here.

is sitting on what you might think is rather swampy ground.

he would have been brought back to Rome, tried and executed.

had the idea of giving this 100 to 250 acres

of prime land, right in the middle of the city,

where the favorite spectacles of Rome could be enjoyed?

The Romans didn't call this the Coliseum.

- [Steven] No, they called it the Flavian Amphitheater.

And it only started to be called the Colosseum

there had been a colossal statue next to it.

that the Emperor Hadrian moved right next

Now the building is not in great condition,

the result of earthquakes and pillaging, in a sense,

later Romans saw all of the stone that was available

but we can still make out some of the exterior decoration.

And certainly we can see that the Romans are thinking back

- [Bernie] In fact, they kind of are summing up

by piling one order or style of architecture on top

So at the very top, you have the Corinthian order,

and the lower story might look to you like the Doric order,

but actually it's a Italic variation on that

- [Steven] The way that we would get inside is

And we're seeing here one of the great innovations

in the lower three stories of the arches,

so the one on the west, the east, the south and the north,

was probably the dedicatory inscription by Vespasian

saying that he had given this to the Roman people as a gift

in the captured temple of the Jews at Jerusalem pay

and so your ticket presumably corresponded

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The Colosseum

incredible

massive

ancient

structure