# The Colosseum

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- Book: [The Colosseum](https://www.bookquiver.com/joan-walker/the-colosseum) ([The Colosseum.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/joan-walker/the-colosseum.md))
- Authors: [Joan Walker](https://www.bookquiver.com/joan-walker), [Mary Beard](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-beard), [Keith Hopkins](https://www.bookquiver.com/keith-hopkins)
- Publisher: Profile Audio
- Medium: audio
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- ISBN: 978-17-8283-570-7
- Published: 2019-03-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

The Colosseum was Imperial Rome's monument to warfare. Like a cathedral of death it towered over the city and invited its citizens, 50,000 at a time, to watch murderous gladiatorial games. It is now visited by two million visitors a year (Hitler was among them). Award winning classicist, Mary Beard with Keith Hopkins, tell the story of Rome's greatest arena: how it was built; the gladiatorial and other games that were held there; the training of the gladiators; the audiences who revelled in the games, the emperors who staged them and the critics. And the strange after story - the Colosseum has been fort, store, church, and glue factory.