The old wooden barriers of the Circus Maximus were replaced with ones made of gold-ornamented marble.

At the Circus Maximus, two armies of war captives, each of 2, 000 people, 200 horse and 20 elephants, fought to the death.

Tarquinius established the Circus Maximus.

The most famous of his great building projects is the Circus Maximus, a giant stadium used for chariot races.

Priscus followed up the Circus Maximus with the construction of the temple-fortress to the god Jupiter upon the Capitoline Hill.

Tarquin also engaged in a series of public works, notably the completion of the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, and works on the Cloaca Maxima and the Circus Maximus.

* 495 BC: Temple to Mercury on the Circus Maximus in Rome is built

He participated as a gladiator and boasts of victory in 1, 000 matches in the Circus Maximus.

Model of ancient Rome in the Roman Empire | Imperial era, showing the Circus Maximus ( foreground ), the Colosseum ( top of picture ) and between them, the Palatine Hill | Palatine

The Circus Maximus ( Latin for great or large circus, in Italian Circo Massimo ) is an ancient Roman chariot racing stadium and mass entertainment venue located in Rome, Italy.

Another view of the Circus Maximus

Over the several centuries of its development, the Circus Maximus became Rome's paramount specialist venue for chariot races.

The last known beast-hunt at the Circus Maximus took place in 523, and the last known races there were held by Totila in 549.

Ruins of the Circus Maximus ( 1983 )

* James Grout: Circus Maximus, part of the Encyclopædia Romana

* Circus Maximus Ipix 360 ° panorama

* Circus Maximus Art & History

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Other honors include his ivory statue as head of procession of the Circus Games ; his posts of priest of Augustus and Augur were to be filled by members of the imperial family ; knights of Rome gave his name to a block of seats in a theatre in Rome.

Even at the height of its development as a chariot-racing circuit, the circus remained the most suitable space in Rome for religious processions on a grand scale, and was the most popular venue for large-scale venationes ; in the late 3rd century, the emperor Probus laid on a spectacular Circus show in which beasts were hunted through a veritable forest of trees, on a specially built stage.

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At the end of June, a mob demonstrated against Cleander during a horse race in the Circus Maximus: he sent the praetorian guard to put down the disturbances, but Pertinax, who was now City Prefect of Rome, dispatched the Vigiles Urbani to oppose them.

It was not included in the itineraries compiled for the use of pilgrims nor in works such as the 12th century Mirabilia Urbis Romae (" Marvels of the City of Rome "), which claims the Circus Flaminius – but not the Colosseum – as the site of martyrdoms.

* Gaius Flaminius Nepos builds a second race track for Rome, the Circus Flaminius.

* A temple is built on the Circus Maximus, between the Aventine and Palatine hills, in Rome, in honour of the god Mercury.

* During his censorship, the Roman political leader, Gaius Flaminius, builds the Circus Flaminius on the Campus Martius and constructs the Via Flaminia from Rome to Ariminum ( Rimini ).

* The temple to Bellona is erected at the south end of the prata Flaminia, later the Circus Flaminius, in Rome.

Moved to Rome by Elagabalus ( 218-222 ) to decorate the spina of the Circus Varianus.

The first circus in Rome was the Circus Maximus, in the valley between the Palatine and Aventine hills.

Next in importance to the Circus Maximus in Rome were the Circus Flaminius and the Circus Neronis, from the notoriety which it obtained through the Circensian pleasures of Nero.

Vicus Tuscus (" Etruscan Street " or " Tuscan Street ") was an ancient street in the city of Rome, running southwest out of the Forum Romanum between the Basilica Iulia and the Temple of Castor and Pollux towards the Forum Boarium and Circus Maximus via the west side of the Palatine Hill and Velabrum.

Intended by Constantine I to be shipped to Constantinople, the very pre-occupied Constantius II had it shipped instead to Rome, where it was re-erected in the Circus Maximus in 357.

The last recorded chariot race in Rome itself took place in the Circus Maximus in 549 AD.

The stadium of the Circus Maximus in Rome, Italy, is an example that could hold 200, 000 spectators.

Then it was transported to Rome, where it was reassembled and placed on October 28, 1937 in Porta Capena square, commemorating the 15th anniversary of the March on Rome, in front of the Ministry for Italian Africa ( later the headquarters of the United Nations's Food and Agriculture Organization ) and the Circus Maximus.