Reviews for Roman Colosseum: The Story of the World's Most Famous Stadium and Its Deadly Games

The average rating for Roman Colosseum: The Story of the World's Most Famous Stadium and Its Deadly Games based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-01-11 00:00:00 Greg Morano Pleasantly surprised! This book gave me a lot to think about in comparing Roman's obsession with entertaining and placating the masses with current events. Fascinating!

Review # 2 was written on 2015-01-05 00:00:00 John Harriman This is by no means a bad book. It is however, clearly intended for a younger audience. What it presents is an accessible, simplified overview of the history of the Roman Colosseum, how it came to being, why it was neccessary, and a description of the games that took place. My reasons for desiring a book about the Colosseum stem from the board game of the same name - which is excellent if you're a gamer, by the way. Without wanting to dwell on that too much, you have to preform a series of different event programs, and it got me intrigued as to if the events the game uses are based on real events the Romans actually staged. Turns out, they are. So there were some cool things to be learned here. Also, although the book does discuss the violence of the games (you can't really discuss an arena designed to watch men kill other men or beasts without at least mentioning some days got a bit bloody), the descriptions are not so off-putting as, say, Gladiator, the Russel Crowe movie (which, for the three people who still haven't seen it, is excellent). So that's a plus if you're looking to educate.