This rollicking journey through the history of the Roman empire’s epic amphitheatre is as fascinating and gory as it is educational. Are you not entertained? I certainly am
olosseum, the new BBC series on the ancient amphitheatre, really should have an exclamation mark after it. It’s just so – exclamationy! A rollicking journey through 300 years of Roman history, via the construction of the enormous monument and the bloody games within, it could not be a more appealing introduction to the subject.
By the time you reach the end of it, you will have learned a lot or remembered a surprising amount of what you had forgotten Central to the grand opening of the Colosseum was the fight, recorded by the poet Martial, between the gladiators Verus and Priscus. According to the re-enactment casting, at least, Priscus was a lad who had been swept up in a raid and enslaved during a gap year in Germania.
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