Date: Fri, 31st January 2025
Time: 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: Dorset Museum, Dorchester
Booking Required: No
The Colosseum: Rome’s Arena of Death
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Join award-winning historian Tom Holland for a talk exploring Rome’s Colosseum and gladiatorial combat at Dorset Museum & Art Gallery on Friday 31 January, 6:00pm – 7:00pm.
When the Colosseum was inaugurated in AD 80, it was not only the largest permanent arena in Rome, but the only one. Why had it taken the Romans so long to erect such a monument in the heart of their capital? What were the origins of gladiatorial combat, and why had they inhibited the construction of a stone arena in Rome for centuries? How did the inaugural games staged in the Colosseum offer to spectators a vision of the heavens? And why, as viscera spilled out into the sands of the great amphitheatre, did the watching emperor pray that the dead of Pompeii and Herculaneum would be content with the offering of blood?
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Dorset Museum (View more Events at this Location)High West Street , Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1XA United Kingdom
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