

The Colosseum
Author: Keith Hopkins, Mary Beard
Narrator: Joan Walker
Unabridged: 4 hr 52 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 12/03/2019
Categories: Nonfiction, Architecture, History, Ancient History, Roman History
Includes:
Bonus Material
Synopsis
Yet the reality is much stranger than the legend as the authors, two prominent classical historians, explain in this absorbing account. We learn the details of how the arena was built and at what cost; we are introduced to the emperors who sometimes fought in gladiatorial games staged at the Colosseum; and we take measure of the audience who reveled in, or opposed, these games. The authors also trace the strange afterlife of the monument—as fortress, shrine of martyrs, church, and glue factory. Why are we so fascinated with this arena of death?