Colosseum
About Colosseum
The Colosseum is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, just east of the Roman Forum. It is the largest ancient amphitheatre ever built, and is the largest standing amphitheatre in the world. Construction began under the Emperor Vespasian in 72 and was completed in AD 80 under his successor and heir, Titus. Further modifications were made during the reign of Domitian. The three emperors who were patrons of the work are known as the Flavian dynasty, and the amphitheatre was named the Flavian Amphitheatre by later classicists and archaeologists for its association with their family name (Flavius).
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When Rome falls, so falls the world. Then almost immediately after that was written and published, the Colossus fell. We think they went, well, shit, everyone's going to think the world's going to end. We better change what the Colossus is. So then we think they named the Colosseum the Colosseum, because it was right nearby.
from No Such Thing As A Luigi Board, 2023-01-20 at 00:11:39 · read transcript
Other times Colosseum came up
One bit, this statue that would be on top of a tomb and they found that used to make someone's window sill on one of the town's streets and then they found out like hang on, this belongs to the cathedral and then take it back. They didn't call the Colosseum the Colosseum did they? No. That's a medieval name for it. They called it the Flavian Amphitheatre and also the name Colosseum comes from a word for big but it's not because that's big, it's because it's next to another statue which happened to be big.
44: No Such Thing As A Vegan Fryup, 2015-01-24 · listen
It was a primitive MC Hammer cult, basically. It's always based on. My favorite place in Rome is Amithraic temple. It is by far the coolest site. Forget everything else, forget the Colosseum. About five minutes from the Colosseum there's a basilica of San Clement. Have you guys been to it? No. I think I might have been. Maybe. It's an 11th century church. You go in 11th century church and there was a cleric who worked in the church in 1867, the friar who worked in the church, who just found that underneath it was hollow and so they excavated underneath and they found a fourth century church and now you can go descend down into that.
571: No Such Thing As Dudley And The Dippers, 2025-02-20 · listen
They've got this room of all the sort of bits they found around the town and there's one bit, this statue that would be on top of a tomb and they found that used to make someone's window sill on one of the town's streets and then they found out like hang on, this belongs to the cathedral and then take it back. They didn't call the Colosseum the Colosseum did they?
44: No Such Thing As A Vegan Fryup, 2015-01-24 · listen
So it's the big holy year next year. So they want to clean it up before the holy year happens. So centurions are no longer loud at the Colosseum. The quote from the mayor is amazing, because he said that they were inappropriate, insistent, and sometimes aggressive, considering they're dressed as men who, you know, conquered Europe. Centurions, I mean, I think this is very well known, but I just want to make it clear how many people they tended to rule over.
92: No Such Thing As A Frozen Chicken Haunting, 2015-12-18 · listen
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