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.