Colosseum

Colosseum

72-80

5683

Flavian amphitheater

Bugbee, Gordon (photograph)

Single Built Works

Italy (nation)

Rome (inhabited place)

Imperial (Roman)

amphitheaters (built works)

caveae

Interior view of the Colosseum in Rome, Italy with seating areas and arena floor. "The design of the Colosseum is a triumph of functional planning. With numerous exits and entrances, it could easily accommodate crowds. Barrel vaulted corridors gave access to tiers of seats laid over them--although most of the seats are gone today. Spectators were seated by rank with the topmost seats, the "chicken coop," available for women and children. An awning originally covered the whole,"--by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton University. "Above the podium were the tiers for the ordinary public. The noble class and knights sat in the first 14 rows of the Colosseum, the section known as the ima cavea. Roman citizens sat in the next block of seats, that is the media cavea. The rest of the population including the urban poor, foreigners, freed slaves and other slaves were lumped together in the highest block of seats, the summa cavea. Finally, women, presumably the respectable wives and daughter of Roman citizens, were expected to sit under the protecting shelter of the colonnade that usually crowned the theater seating area,"--Roman Colosseum website.

615' x 510'; 159' H

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