Chrisp, Peter

The colosseum (How it was built and how it was used) [Text] - 1 st ed. - Wayland (Publishers) 1997 - 48 p., col.ill.; 29 cm. - Great buildings .

This book tells the extraordinary story of the ancient world's greatest amphitheatre. We read how it came to be built - to please the citizens of Rome after the monstrous vanity of the emperor Nero - and of the great feats of technology that went into its construction.

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