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The Colosseum

The Colosseum

by Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard
Hardback
Publication Date: 27/11/2005

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The reality of the Colosseum is much stranger than legend as explained by two classical historians in an account of ancient Rome's most famous monument, detailing its construction, the gladiatorial games that it housed, and its changing roles as a modern-day concert venue and tourist attraction.
ISBN:
9780674018952
9780674018952
Category:
Places & peoples: general & pictorial works
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
27-11-2005
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
192
Dimensions (mm):
184x114x21mm
Weight:
0.3kg
Mary Beard

Mary Beard is a professor of classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and the Classics editor of the TLS. She has world-wide academic acclaim, and is a fellow of the British Academy and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Her previous books include most recently SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, and the bestselling, Wolfson Prize-winning Pompeii, The Roman Triumph, also The Parthenon and Confronting the Classics. Her blog has been collected in the books It's a Don's Life and All in a Don's Day.

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