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The Flavian Amphitheatre, better known as the Colosseum, was completed during the reign of Titus and inaugurated with spectacular games that lasted for 100 days.
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After Ignatius ' martyrdom in the Flavian Amphitheatre, his remains were honorably carried back to Antioch by his companions, and were first interred outside the city gates, then removed by the Emperor Theodosius II to the Tychaeum, or Temple of Tyche which was converted into a church dedicated to Ignatius.
* Emperor Honorius closes the Flavian Amphitheatre ( Colosseum ) in an austerity move that abolishes amusements.
The Colosseum, or the Coliseum, originally the Flavian Amphitheatre ( Latin: Amphitheatrum Flavium, Italian Anfiteatro Flavio or Colosseo ), is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire, built of concrete and stone.
The lake was filled in and the land reused as the location for the new Flavian Amphitheatre.
* Views of the Flavian Amphitheatre ( Coliseum )
See Inaugural games of the Flavian Amphitheatre.
Construction of the Flavian Amphitheatre, presently better known as the Colosseum, was begun in 70 under Vespasian and finally completed in 80 under Titus.
Construction of this building was hastily finished to coincide with the completion of the Flavian Amphitheatre.
* Inaugural games of the Flavian Amphitheatre
Life in ancient Rome revolved around the city of Rome, its famed seven hills, and its monumental structures such as the Flavian Amphitheatre ( now called the Colosseum ), the Forum of Trajan, and the Pantheon.
A massive building programme was enacted to celebrate the ascent of the Flavian dynasty, leaving multiple enduring landmarks in the city of Rome, the most spectacular of which was the Flavian Amphitheatre, better known as the Colosseum.
Like the Sacré-Coeur basilica in Montmartre or the Flavian Amphitheatre in Rome, the new buildings of the National Socialists would replace the commercial buildings that were signs of the cultural decay and general break-up of the Berlin of the 1930s.
* A Flavian Amphitheatre ( Amphitheatrum Flavium ), the third largest Italian amphitheatre after the Colosseum and the Capuan Amphitheatre.
His combat with Priscus was the highlight of the opening day of the games conducted by Titus to inaugurate the Flavian Amphitheatre ( later the Colosseum ) in AD 80, and was recorded in a laudatory poem by Martial — the only detailed description of a gladiatorial fight that has survived to the present day.
His combat with Verus was the highlight of the opening day of the games conducted by Titus to inaugurate the Flavian Amphitheatre in AD 80, and was recorded in a laudatory poem by Martial — the only detailed description of a gladiatorial fight that has survived to the present day.
Archaeological discoveries have found a block of travertine that bears dowel holes that show the Jewish Wars financed the building of the Flavian Amphitheatre.
Italica ’ s amphitheater seated 25, 000 spectators — half as many as the Flavian Amphitheatre in Rome — and was the third largest in the Roman Empire.
His book, L ' anfiteatro flavio puteolano ( 1955 ), is considered to be the definitive monograph on the subject of the Flavian Amphitheatre in Pozzuoli.
The building's exterior resembles the Flavian Amphitheatre in Rome ( better known by its later name of the Colosseum ) although in fact the resemblance is to the present rather than original state of the building.
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Among the most important new structures were an odeon, a stadium, and an expansive palace on the Palatine Hill known as the Flavian Palace which was designed by Domitian's master architect Rabirius.
On the other hand, Nerva lacked widespread support in the Empire, and as a known Flavian loyalist, his track record would not have recommended him to the conspirators.
While in Rome and under Flavian patronage, Josephus wrote all of his known works.
However, at the time that the Pseudo-Bede wrote, the masculine noun coliseus was applied to the statue rather than to what was still known as the Flavian amphitheatre.
It was while in Rome, and under Flavian patronage, that Josephus wrote all of his known works.
From 518, on the death of Flavian and the appointment of his successor, the Chalcedonian church became known as the Greek Church of Antioch.
From the rule of the Flavian Dynasty until the Year Of The Five Emperors, the Roman Empire experienced an extended period of internal peace and harmony later known as the time of The Five Good Emperors-Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius.
* Flavian Amphitheater: Otherwise known as the Colosseum built from 70 to 80 AD.
At the synod Eusebius of Dorylaeum presented Flavian with a letter, detailing his complaints against Eutyches, as well as making known his willingness to be a witness against him personally.
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* The walls of Rome's Flavian Amphitheater ( Colosseum ) crack during an earthquake.
When orders are superposed one above another, as they are at the Flavian Amphitheater — the Colosseum — the natural progression is from sturdiest and plainest ( Doric ) at the bottom, to slenderest and richest ( Corinthian ) at the top.
* Flavian Amphitheater ( Amphitheatrum Flavium ), the third largest Italian amphitheater after the Colosseum and the Capuan Amphitheater.
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Flavian was mortally wounded.
Domitian was the third and last emperor of the Flavian dynasty.
In Rome meanwhile, Domitian was placed under house arrest by Vitellius, as a safeguard against future Flavian aggression.
By the afternoon of 20 December Vitellius was dead, his armies having been defeated by the Flavian legions.
Strict control was also maintained over the young Caesar's entourage, promoting away Flavian generals such as Arrius Varus and Antonius Primus and replacing them by more reliable men such as Arrecinus Clemens.
Prior to becoming Emperor, Domitian's role in the Flavian government was largely ceremonial.
The family procession was headed by Vespasian and Titus, while Domitian, riding a magnificent white horse, followed with the remaining Flavian relatives.
Real power was unmistakably concentrated in the hands of the Flavian faction ; the weakened Senate only maintained the facade of democracy.
Until the completion of the Flavian Palace on the Palatine Hill, the imperial court was situated at Alba or Circeo, and sometimes even farther afield.
One of the most detailed reports of military activity under the Flavian dynasty was written by Tacitus, whose biography of his father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola largely concerns the conquest of Britain between 77 and 84.
In 85, Agricola was recalled to Rome by Domitian, having served for more than six years as governor, longer than normal for consular legates during the Flavian era.
His body was carried away on a common bier, and unceremoniously cremated by his nurse Phyllis, who later mingled the ashes with those of his niece Julia, at the Flavian temple.
The letter of Pope Leo I to Flavian of Constantinople was widely considered in the East as the work of Satan ; so that nobody cared to hear of the Church of Rome.
He was destined later to bring about reconciliation between Flavian I of Antioch, the successor of Alexandria and Rome, thus bringing those three sees into communion for the first time in nearly seventy years.
Vespasian was the founder of the Flavian dynasty, which ruled the Empire for a quarter century.
There followed the famous Year of Four Emperors, a brief period of civil war and instability, which was finally brought to an end by Vespasian, 9th Roman emperor, and founder of the Flavian dynasty.
These were Domitian whose violent death in 96 ended the Flavian Dynasty, the co-emperor Publius Septimius Geta, whose memory was publicly expunged by his co-emperor brother Caracalla after he murdered him in 211, and in 311 Maximian, who was captured by Constantine the Great and then encouraged to commit suicide.
A favorable occasion for extending the authority of Rome in the East was offered in the renewal of the Christological controversy by Eutyches, who in the beginning of the conflict appealed to Leo and took refuge with him on his condemnation by Flavian.
The Colosseum's original Latin name was Amphitheatrum Flavium, often anglicized as Flavian Amphitheater.
The building was constructed by emperors of the Flavian dynasty, hence its original name, after the reign of Emperor Nero.
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