This is the inside of the COLOSSEO (Italian word), it was an enormous and beautiful amphitheater, called flavian amphitheater because the construction was ordered by the emperor Vespasian, founder of the flavian dynasty (Vespasian and his two sons Titus and Domitian). The amphitheater was inaugurated by the emperor Titus (emperor for the short period 79-81), about the celebration for the inauguration the poet Martial wrote his LIBER DE SPECTACULIS, “The Book of Spectacles”, where he describes what happened in the colosseo in that day, memorable and terrible things. The amphitheater, 52 meters high, comprised, on an area of approximately 19.000 mq., four orders or plans of 80 arches everyone and contained approximately 70.000 places. Wednesday, May 17, 2006
The Book of Spectacles
This is the inside of the COLOSSEO (Italian word), it was an enormous and beautiful amphitheater, called flavian amphitheater because the construction was ordered by the emperor Vespasian, founder of the flavian dynasty (Vespasian and his two sons Titus and Domitian). The amphitheater was inaugurated by the emperor Titus (emperor for the short period 79-81), about the celebration for the inauguration the poet Martial wrote his LIBER DE SPECTACULIS, “The Book of Spectacles”, where he describes what happened in the colosseo in that day, memorable and terrible things. The amphitheater, 52 meters high, comprised, on an area of approximately 19.000 mq., four orders or plans of 80 arches everyone and contained approximately 70.000 places. 
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