Inauguration of the Flavian Amphitheatre

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1. Story
2. The Colosseum is inaugurated under Titus with games reported to have lasted a hundred days. Built on the drained lake of Nero's private Golden House, it is a deliberate act of political architecture: imperial land returned to public use. Capacity figures in the 50,000-80,000 range are modern estimates from seating reconstruction, not attested counts.
3. Knowledge
4. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
5. Rome
6. Inauguration of the Flavian Amphitheatre
7. Connections
8. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
9. Rome
10. The voussoir arch
11. Roman concrete (opus caementicium)
12. Rome
13. New7Wonders Foundation
14. The canon of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
15. The New7Wonders of the World are declared in Lisbon
16. Inauguration of the Flavian Amphitheatre
17. The Colosseum opens: arch and concrete at civic scale
18. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
19. The Roman Legion
20. Roman Law
21. The Mediterranean Sea (Mare Nostrum)
22. Ostia Antica
23. Via Appia
24. Traditional foundation of the Roman Republic
25. Construction of the Via Appia begins
26. The Punic Wars
27. Caesar crosses the Rubicon
28. Assassination of Julius Caesar
29. The Augustan settlement: Octavian becomes Augustus
30. Inauguration of the Flavian Amphitheatre
31. Dedication of Constantinople
32. Administrative division of the empire on the death of Theodosius I
33. Alaric's Goths sack Rome
34. Odoacer deposes Romulus Augustulus - the contested 'fall' of the Western Roman Empire
35. The Pantheon, Rome
36. The Pantheon dome spans about 43 m in unreinforced concrete
37. Evidence
38. The inscribed property covers the ancient civic and monumental core of Rome including the Fora, the Colosseum, the Pantheon and the Mausoleum of Augustus, providing the geographic anchor for the city as an object.