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Tatiana kitty, A View of the Roman Forum., Wikimedia Commons, April 5th 2009

Twen, Amphitheatre in Avenches, Switzerland, 28 August 2011

Tags: amphitheatre, Arena, Athletics, Avenches, City, Competition, Culture, Entertainment, Entertainment Space, Late Antiquity, Roman City, Roman Culture, roman empire, Spectacle, Spectator, Sports, Stadium, Switzerland, Urbanism

Visit Wales Agents, Amphitheatre Caerleon, Wales, 12 September 2010

Caerleon, now in Wales, was primarily a military headquarters, as such, this amphitheater was used for military displays.

Tags: amphitheatre, Arena, Ariel, Athletics, City, Competition, Culture, Entertainment, Entertainment Space, Late Antiquity, Roman City, Roman Culture, roman empire, Ruins, Spectacle, Spectator, Sports, Stadium, UK, Urbanism, Wales

VonRalph, Circus in Merida, Spain, 6 April 2014

Tags: Chariot, Circus, Entertainment, Hippodrome, Horse Racing, late antique, Merida, Politics, Race, roman empire, spain, Spectacle, Urban

Wikimedia Commons, Hagia Eirene, Constantinople

Commissioned in 360 by Constantine, the Hagia Eirene could be said to physically represent the Christian side of his policy of toleration alongside…

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Christianity, Cities, Constantinople, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Hagia Eirene, Istanbul, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Religion, roman empire, Turkey, Urbanism

Wilke D. Schram, Driek van Opstal, and Cees Passchier., Sketch of an Aqueduct Siphon

A rough drawing of a siphon, an important piece of architecture in making aqueducts function.

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, aqueduct, Aqueduct Siphon, Byzantium, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, late antique, Late Antiquity, Livius.org, Medieval, Plan, roman empire, Siphon, Sketch, Urbanism

Zanner, Ruins from the Circus in Milan, 2007

While little remains today, the circus in Milan was an example of a circus existing outside the city center. Built up against the city wall, it still…

Tags: Ancient, Chariot, Circus, City, Entertainment, Horse Racing, Italy, late antique, Milan, roman empire, Ruins, Spectacle, Urban

Appian Way, Mike Yardley News and Travel, 2013

Leading from the Porta San Sebastiano, one of the 18 gates of the Aurelian Wall, is the famous Via Appia. Though built in the fourth-century BCE, the…

Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy, Interior

A cargo worker at Ostia, 2017

The relief is currently a part of the collection of the Museo Nazionale Romano alle Terme di Diocleziano (Baths of Diocletian), inv. number 56425.