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An account on Rome's most famous monument, the Colosseum. It details of how the arena was built and at what cost, introduces to the emperors who sometimes fought in gladiatorial games staged at the Colosseum, and, takes measure of the audience who reveled in, or opposed, these games. It trace the strange afterlife of the monument.

The story of Rome's greatest arena, from the award-winning classicist Beard, who recently presented and wrote the BBC2 documentary "Pompeii". '...first class scholarship and an engagingly demotic style' "Independent