Arena: The Story of the Colosseum

by John George Pearson

Book Overview

In the Year AD 80 the Colosseum opened with quite the longest and most nauseating organized mass orgy in history. It was a mammoth celebration on the grandest scale, a fitting inauguration for an arena built to epitomize all the majesty and power of the Roman Empire, a building which also held the seeds of that Empire's decay and destruction.

As well as his vivid account of the erection of the Colosseum, Mr Pearson discusses the origins...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1448207991
• ISBN13: 9781448207992
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Reader
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"