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Flapane, Amphitheatre at Pompeii, 12 April 2012

Although not late antique Pompeii's amphitheater, built around 70-65BCE, is the earliest surviving example of such a structure.

Tags: amphitheatre, Ancient, Arena, Athletics, City, Competition, Culture, Entertainment, Entertainment Space, Italy, Late Antiquity, Pompeii, Roman City, Roman Culture, roman empire, Spectacle, Spectator, Sports, Stadium, 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

Carole Raddato, Amphitheatre Durres, Albania, 7 July 2016

Over 200 Roman amphitheaters have been found across Europe, Africa, and Asia. Unfourtnantly, many of these are hardly recognizable as amphitheaters…

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

Amphitheatre in Arles, France

This amphitheatre in Arles, France was built in 90CE and could hold up to 20,000 spectators. Today, this space is still used for bull fights and…

Tags: amphitheatre, Animal, Arena, Arles, Athletics, Bull, Bull Fight, City, Competition, Culture, Entertainment, Entertainment Space, France, Late Antiquity, Modern, Modern Use, Present Day, Roman City, Roman Culture, roman empire, Spectacle, Spectator, Sports, Stadium, Urbanism

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

Diego Delso, Amphitheatre in Italica, Spain, 6 December 2015

This amphitheatre near modern day Seville was built between 117-138CE and could hold up to 25,000 people. It is situated in Italica, the first Roman…

Tags: amphitheatre, Arena, Athletics, City, Competition, Culture, Entertainment, Entertainment Space, Hispania, Late Antiquity, Passageways, Roman City, Roman Culture, roman empire, spain, Spectacle, Spectator, Sports, Stadium, Subterranean, Urbanism

Tataryn, Amphitheatre Map, 7 November 2013

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

Giovanni Battista Cipriani, An 18th or 19th century sketch of the Forum of Trajan., Wikimedia Commons, 18th-19th Century

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Early Middle Ages, Economics, Fall of Rome, forum, late antique, Late Antiquity, Market, Medieval, Politics, roman empire, Society, Trajan, Urbanism

Anna Leone Changing Townscapes in North Africa from Late Antiquity to the Arab Conquest Cover

Ana Munk, Apis Bull Mosaic, Ss. Giovanni e Paolo, Caelian Hill, Rome, 2009

Like the Mosaic of the Four Seasons, this mosaic depicting most likely the popular cult of the Romanized Apis Bull was not whitewashed when…