Seven Facts About the Great Colosseum

• This enormous Colosseum is located in Rome, Italy, and built from 70-82 Century. The name ‘colosseum’ was taken from a name ‘Colossus‘, a statue as high as 130 feet (40 meters). Colossus statue was rebuilt as an exchange of Nero, resemblance of Sol ( God of Sun), by adding sun crown on. In Italy, Colosseum is named il Colosseo, while in other part of Rome, colosseum is called e colisée and el coliseo. Colosseum also called Flavian Amphitheatre.

• Colosseum is one of the world’s masterpiece. This site is said as the greatest and most spectacular stadium, with 48 meters high, 188 meters long, 156 meters wide, with the total area of 2.5 ha has made Colosseum looks very huge and wide. The arena is made of wood 86m x 54m, and covered by sand.

• The reconstruction of Colosseum was made at 73C by Emperor Tirus, the youngest song of Emperor Vespasian.

• During the reconstruction, two underground channels was made and connected one into another, in form of tunnel, and cabin/cage where the gladiators and animal were placed before the bloody gladiator game begun. Trap doors were also made to avoid unplanned beasts getting into colosseum arena, and in order to keep their arsenal. Colosssuem shaped elips/rounded. The ellips/rounded shaped of Colosseum is meant to avoid the gladiators to escape to corner, and to avoid audiences to get closer to the show.

• Colosseum is divided into three stary seats as mentioned Podium and Maeniaum Primum.

• Podium, the most special seat made for the Roman senato. Special room for kings, his rest, place for treasure are also be in the floor.

• Maeniaum Primum, a layer above Podium, which made for Roman’s aristocratic. Maeniaum Primum it self then divided into three parts.

1. Immum, the lowest part of Maeniaum primum which wass built for rich people/burjois
2. Summum, the level under immum, which made for proletarian.
3. Maeniaum Secundum in Legneis, a level which was built from wood and places in the highest layer of the building. This place is fr standing only and used for low-class women.

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