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 ...
In order to celebrate the completion of the Colosseum in the year 80 AD, the Romans celebrated with 100 days of âspectacles.â These werenât just warm fuzzy theater performances or talent shows, however. These spectacles were brutal and bloody and resulted in the deaths of roughly 20,000 animals and 10,000 gladiators.