Roman Culture and Society

Lecture 06

‘Bread and Circuses’

Flavian Amphitheatre, Rome

Model of Flavian Amphitheatre

Named seats, Flavian amphitheatre

Numbered entrances

Separate access

Pompeii, Amphitheatre

Pompeii, Amphitheatre

Seating hierarchy

1

2

3

‘Women’s boxes’

External staircases

Internal corridor

Pompeii, Theatre

Circus Maximus, Rome

Zliten, mosaic

Zliten, mosaic

Guy Fawkes

Announcement of games

Pompeii, tomb painting

Pompeii, Stabian Gate necropolis: tomb relief

Pompeii, tomb graffiti

Smirat, Mosaic of Magerius

Rome, Flavian Amphitheatre

Flavian Amphitheatre, reconstruction

Flavian Amphitheatre

Underground passages

Flavian amphitheatre

Ludus magnus, model

Ludus magnus

Epitaph of T. Flavius Stephanus

Riot at Pompeii

Announcement of games

Oenoanda location

Athens, Theatre of Dionysos