Question for Goldman: What made the Romans actually build the Colosseum? ~Martha Answer: The Flavian Emperor Vespasian conceived the idea and put 4 teams of construction workers onto the job.

Domitian’s murder marked the end of the Flavian dynasty and changed the rules of succession. Nerva and Trajan (ruled 96 – 98 AD, 98 – 117 AD) were not born to rule, but were chosen for the job.

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O’Brien, chief ed., Oxford University Press: Oxford (2014): 128-34 "Dancing in Scyros: Masculinity and Young Women's Rituals in the Achilleid," in Ritual and Religion in Flavian Epic, A. Augoustakis, ...

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Rüpke, Jörg 2012. Starting sacrifice in the beyond Flavian innovations in the concept of priesthood and their repercussions in the treatise “To the Hebrews”. Revue de l'histoire des religions, p. 5.

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Built on the site of an artificial lake once part of the Domus Aurea, Emperor Nero's immense palace, the amphitheatre was ...

A visit to see the world's largest amphitheater – once known as the Flavian Amphitheater – is well worth it, though. Inside the ancient complex, there is very little signage explaining what ...

Classical Philology, Vol. 119, Issue. 1, p. 70. Greco-Roman martial epic poetry, from Homer and Virgil to Neronian and Flavian epic, is obsessed with the treatment of dead bodies. Sometimes corpses ...

As the most enduring symbol of the Roman Empire and one of the most famous landmarks in the world, the Colosseum receives more than 6 million visitors per year – which means it's not easy to escape ...