FAH101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Roman Forum, Funeral Games, Corinthian Order
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Has a system of tunnels under it that allowed underground access to the forum itself, through which stage props or animals could be lifted onto the surface. The colliseum was not the first amphitheatre built in rome, or anywhere in the roman empire. But after it had been built it became a model for all other amphitheatres. Before it was built there was a provisional theatre made of wood. Two theatres formed in opposite directions, which could be put together for games, so that the form would have been one of the amphitheatre. First stone theatre buitl by augusts" general in 1st cent bc (29 bc) But nothing of this one is left; destroyed in fire of nero. Was also in field of mars, outside the pomerium. But we don"t know its exact location. Originated as funerary games for aristocratic deaths. Dares back at least to 6t hcent bce.
