Research Catalog
The Colosseum
- Title
- The Colosseum / Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard.
- Author
- Hopkins, Keith, 1934-2004.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | DG68.1 .H67 2005 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Beard, Mary, 1955-
- Description
- x, 214 pages : illustrations; 19 cm.
- Summary
- This is the story of Rome's greatest arena - how it was built, the gladiatorial and other games that were held there, the training of the gladiators, the audiences who revelled in the games, the emperors who staged them and the critics, and the strange after-life.
- Series Statement
- Wonders of the world
- Uniform Title
- Wonders of the world (Cambridge, Mass.)
- Subject
- Note
- Originally published: London : Profile Books, 2005.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-203) and index.
- Contents
- Preface -- Chapter 1. The Colosseum Now ... -- Chapter 2. ... and Then -- Chapter 3. The Killing Fields -- Chapter 4. The People of the Colosseum -- Chapter 5. Bricks and Mortar -- Chapter 6. Life after Death -- Making a visit?
- ISBN
- 0674018958
- 9780674018952
- 0674060318
- 9780674060319
- LCCN
- 2005046011
- 2220439
- OCLC
- ocm58594999
- 58594999
- SCSB-1376612
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library