The Colosseum is a place of spectacular performances 5 types of fighting for hundreds of years. It is estimated that thousands of people and animals die in the show at the Colosseum. The fifth fight is a fight between animals (venetaiones), the battle between humans and animals prisoners, execution of prisoners (noxii), water fights (naumachiae) by flooding the arena, and fights between gladiators (munera). Construction of the Colosseum is enough sadistic and bloody. The historian Dio Cassius said that 9000 wild animals were killed at 100 days as a celebration of the inauguration and opening of the Colosseum. The floor of the Colosseum arena was covered with sand to prevent the blood-the blood does not flow anywhere. Elliptical or spherical shape of the Colosseum point to prevent the players fled to the corners and prevent the audience closer to the show arena.
Colosseum is a great masterpiece. Colosseum can be considered as a stage spectacular, both in terms of form and structure of the Colosseum itself. Seating in the Colosseum is divided into different levels. Podium, as the very first place to sit, and is devoted to the senators Rome at the time. There is also a special room for the king, as well as its resting place. A place to store property is also on this level. Under the podium there maeniaum primum, which is devoted to the nobility of Rome. While the third level is the primum maenianum then subdivided into three parts. The bottom (immum) used to sit on the rich. At the top is the summum, which is used for the common people. While the latter (maenianum secundum in legneis) is a place whose structure is made of wood at the top of the building. The place was standing room only for the women who specialize lowly.
After 2 years of the Colosseum is used as the venue of the fight, an underground area (Hypogeum) in the form of two levels of underground lines interconnected tunnels and is also a form of confinement where the gladiators and animals were placed before the fight begins. This section also provided the traps are used to prevent entry of wild animals are not planned into the arena and to keep the weapons storage area in the Colosseum. Colosseum is still being used until the year 217 AD, although it has been destroyed by fire, because it was struck by lightning. Colosseum then repaired in the year 238 AD and gladiatorial games continued until Christianity gradually stop the game because too many casualties.
The name Colosseum was derived from the name of a giant statue as high as 130 feet (40 meters), called Colossus. Colossus Statue is regenerated as a replacement for Nero, as a symbol of the sun god, by adding the crown of the sun. Colosseum is able to accommodate audiences of up to the maximum number of 50,000 people. Building the Colosseum was not far from Nero's Palace Enermous, Domus Aurea who had already been built after a major fire incident in Rome, in AD 64. Some historians believe that the financing of construction of the Colosseum was derived from a large booty large temple in Jerusalem, on the orders of King Herod around 64 AD In Italy, the Coliseum was named il Colosseo Rome but other languages use the name Le Colisée and el Coliseo to mention the Colosseum.
Today, the Colosseum became a very valuable ancient buildings, and became one of the most interesting attractions of Italy. If you have the opportunity to come to Italy, do not forget to visit the Colosseum this.
