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A Monument to Dynasty and Death: The Story of Rome's Colosseum and the Emperors Who Built It
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“The coinage of imperial Rome typically bears the portrait of the reigning emperor on one side and some other ideologically charged design on the other. Images on Roman imperial coins were always changing and topical. Modern Western coins are, by comparison, monotonous in terms of the images they represent and the messages they carry. Images do not change frequently on the coins, and the topics they relate to are seldom current.”
― A Monument to Dynasty and Death: The Story of Rome's Colosseum and the Emperors Who Built It
― A Monument to Dynasty and Death: The Story of Rome's Colosseum and the Emperors Who Built It
“According to ancient sources, the holding of gladiatorial combats often coincided with funerary memorials, and even in the age of Augustus there was strong correlation of these games with memorials for deceased members of the emperor’s family or with holidays associated with the living emperor.”
― A Monument to Dynasty and Death: The Story of Rome's Colosseum and the Emperors Who Built It
― A Monument to Dynasty and Death: The Story of Rome's Colosseum and the Emperors Who Built It
“Condemnation to train as a gladiator or venator was a merciful punishment when compared with damnatio ad bestias, damnatio ad flammas, or crucifixion, as it allowed a chance for survival and hope to buy or win one’s eventual freedom.”
― A Monument to Dynasty and Death: The Story of Rome's Colosseum and the Emperors Who Built It
― A Monument to Dynasty and Death: The Story of Rome's Colosseum and the Emperors Who Built It
“The concrete core of the Meta Sudans was still visible until 1936 when Mussolini had it and the base of the Colossus of Sol removed because they were unattractive and because he wished to orchestrate parades of soldiers through the Arch of Constantine to the Via dell’Impero, the modern road he built that wraps around the Colosseum (figure 3.4). Before”
― A Monument to Dynasty and Death: The Story of Rome's Colosseum and the Emperors Who Built It
― A Monument to Dynasty and Death: The Story of Rome's Colosseum and the Emperors Who Built It
“In the Roman world, peace was not thought of as the opposite of war, as it is today, but instead as the outcome of war and victory.”
― A Monument to Dynasty and Death: The Story of Rome's Colosseum and the Emperors Who Built It
― A Monument to Dynasty and Death: The Story of Rome's Colosseum and the Emperors Who Built It
