Inauguration of the Colosseum
Titus opened the Flavian Amphitheatre, the largest amphitheatre of the Roman world, with games that lasted more than a hundred days.
- Date
- 80year known
- Place
- Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre)today: Rome, Italy · Western and Central Europe
- Participants
- Titus, Vespasian
- Threads
- Europe in the Roman age (1st–5th c.)
- Also known as
- Inaugural games of the Flavian Amphitheatre; Flavian Amphitheatre; Амфитеатр Флавиев
Vespasian began the amphitheatre around AD 70 on the site of the artificial lake of Nero’s Golden House, returning the land to public use, and Titus completed it within a year of his father’s death. The inaugural games of 80 included animal hunts, executions, gladiatorial combats and mock naval battles; Cassius Dio writes that some 9,000 animals were killed. The poet Martial celebrated the spectacles in his Book of Spectacles.
The Colosseum, which held tens of thousands of spectators, was used for gladiatorial games into the 5th century and for animal hunts into the 6th, and became the best-known symbol of Rome.
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Sources
- Wikipedia (English): Inaugural games of the Colosseum
- Wikipedia (English): Colosseum
- Wikipedia (Russian): Колизей
- Hopkins K., Beard M. The Colosseum. — London: Profile Books, 2005.
- Wikidata: Q2554098