Il Colosseo. La storia e il mito

This book isn't quite as exhaustive as Mary Beard's book on Pompeii, but it's very good. It discusses both the popular myths about the Colosseum and the truths, if any, behind them. It's also nice that Mary Beard and Keith Hopkins recognise that they could be wrong, and that future archaelogy could

Full of great anectdotes and research, this book is perfect for the rare individual who is ready to look at the Colosseum academically. Without even going out of its way it makes clear that most of what you think you know about this wonder of the world is actually not true. It is a bit of a mythbust Leggi tutto

While the authors have interesting points it feels as if they try to cover too much in too little space. Many things I would have liked to have been elaborated on were only mentioned in passing in one sentence, while other things that didnt seem as interesting were discussed at times for pages. This Leggi tutto

The eleventh century equivalent to the modern Blue Guide , a travel book titled The Wonders of Rome , instructed medieval tourists on the function and identity of the Colosseum with spectacular confidence. It was “the temple of the Sun . . . disposed with many diverse vaulted chambers,” and in the mid Leggi tutto

This book starts out with a view of the Colosseum from the 1800s, which is one of the reasons why I picked up: I wanted to read about the 1700 or so years the Colosseum wasn't *The Colosseum*. Of course the main part of the book is about the Colosseum days of the Colosseum, but it is entertainingly

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