The Italian word for comrade is compagno, meaning fellow. The word camerata, meaning roommate, is the fascist equivalent.
When the games were held in the forum, the only seats were a limited amount of temporary wooden seating. The Circus Maxima. The Colosseum. The Colosseum In the first century AD, the Roman Emperor Vespasian decided that Rome needed a stadium that would not only satisfy the crowds, but also convince the magnitude that ...
Origins of the Colosseum. Even after the decadent Roman emperor Nero took his own life in A.D. 68, his misrule and excesses fueled a series of civil wars. No fewer than four emperors took the throne in the tumultuous year after Neroâs death; the fourth, Vespasian, would end up ruling for 10 years (A.D. 69-79).