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The original amphitheatre on that site was destroyed in the burning of Rome in Nero's time . The present structure , begun by the emperor Vespasian in a.d. 75 , was known to Romans as the Flavian Amphitheatre .
The original amphitheatre on that site was destroyed in the burning of Rome in Nero's time . The present structure , begun by the emperor Vespasian in a.d. 75 , was known to Romans as the Flavian Amphitheatre .
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Even in the age of Augustus , under whose reign Christ was born , the historian Titus Livius , also called Livy , lamented in the beginning of his History of Rome that “ our vices have attained to such a height of enormity , that we can ...
Even in the age of Augustus , under whose reign Christ was born , the historian Titus Livius , also called Livy , lamented in the beginning of his History of Rome that “ our vices have attained to such a height of enormity , that we can ...
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Literary forms other than drama reached high levels in Rome . In poetry these ranged from the short satirical poems of Catullus to the odes , epistles , and satires of Horace , and Virgil's Aeneid , the Roman equivalent of the epics of ...
Literary forms other than drama reached high levels in Rome . In poetry these ranged from the short satirical poems of Catullus to the odes , epistles , and satires of Horace , and Virgil's Aeneid , the Roman equivalent of the epics of ...
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How Drama Was Born | 1 |
The Theatre of Greece | 6 |
Reconstruction of Theatre of Dionysus at Athens | 14 |
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