The Colosseum

admired ancient Rome Androcles animals appeared Arch of Titus arches arena artist barbarian beauty beneath buildings built Byron Capitol Capitoline Castel Sant'Angelo CAVALIERI Cellini century A.D. chariots Christian Circus Maximus coin Cola Coliseum Colonna Colosseum columns Commodus Constantine crowd crumbling Daisy Daisy Miller death Domitian EDITOR emperor erected Eternal City eyes famous feet FERROVIUS Flavian Amphitheater Forum friends Gibbon Giovanelli gladiatorial games gladiators historian huge human imperial Italian Italy Josephine Powell Julius Caesar LAVINIA learned lion look marble Marcus Aurelius martyrs Meanwhile MICHAEL ANGELO modern monuments Nero Nero's once pagan palace Palatine passion Petrarch Pius poet Pompeii Pope portrait prisoners reign reproduced by permission Roma Roman Forum Rome's ruins Sacred Saint Senate seum slaves spectacle SPINTHO splendid statues stones Suetonius Symmachus Tacitus Temple theater tion Titus tomb Trajan travertine troops vast Vatican Vespasian walls wild beasts Winterbourne young