A Day at the colosseum
(the Flavian Amphitheater)

A 6th grade webquest on Ancient Rome
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Invitation A.D. 80 (LXXX)
Your Emperor, Titus, invites you to the opening festivities of the magnificent Flavian Amphitheater (the Colosseum).

The games will last 100 days and over 5000 animals and hundreds of humans will be slaughtered.

This free ticket entitles you to enter the LXIX arch on Dies Martis (Day of Mars) in this the second month, Aprilis. Come and experience the "splendor" of a day at the Colosseum.


 

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