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Colosseum

Among numerous Rome’s major urban structures, Colosseum impresses by its

grandiosity and fascinating views. Colosseum is also known as an amphitheater where almost

500 000 million people and a million animal lives were lost for the purpose of entertainment

(Hengel). In other words, that was a place of cruel events and games, thus attracting people from

all over the world. Moreover, to draw around 50, 000 spectators, organizers of the events fed the

spectators throughout the merciless game (Hengel). Nevertheless, Colosseum remained to play

an important role and addressed certain urban issues.

The Colosseum solved a number of issues dominating in the Roman Empire. First, such

problem as unemployment was intended to resolve the massive cases of being unable to find job

positions. Therefore, those people were provided by the government with free bread and

entertainment, which believed to make happy the many unemployed people. Colosseum

performed an entertainment role as well. A great number of fights and games between people

and animals attracted thousands of spectators. The gladiator games were the most fascinating and

became the reason for such modern psychological issue as gambling. The success of the

Colosseum could be also considered from the political perspective. In fact, the amphitheater was

the gift to Romans from the emperor (Hopkins and Beard 36). He intended to demonstrate his

power and majesty in such a way. Moreover, the great walls supported the enormous weight and

symbolized the greatness of Rome and the Roman Empire particularly.

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Until nowadays, the Colosseum remains to impact modern buildings and architecture.

The structure of modern stadiums was directly influenced by the Roman Colosseum. Therefore,

the Roman devising, construction, and building techniques helped numerous architects in

designing stadiums. For instance, the Great Hall of the Yankee Stadium was designed from the

example of Colosseum. Architects of the stadium took numerous examples of Colosseum

structures and used them for their project.

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Works Cited

Hopkins, Keith, and Mary Beard. The Colosseum. Harvard University Press, 2011.

Hangel, Livia. “A History of the Colosseum in One Minute.”. Culture Ttrip, 2018.

www.theculturetrip.com/europe/italy/articles/a-history-of-the-colosseum-in-one-minute/.

Accessed 23 March 2020.

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Reference

Hengel, L “A History of the Colosseum in one Minute.” The Culture Trip. 2018,

https://theculturetrip.com/europe/italy/articles/a-history-of-the-colosseum-in-one-minute/

Keith Hopkins. The Colosseum. 2011, Profile Books.