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It is an ancient building which is a national symbol of the long history of Rome (an eternal city) and a long surviving building of the Roman Empire .It was built for performances, which were a basic part of ancient Roman .culture. Its size, date of construction (antiquity) and central place in old culture makes it an obvious choice as Rome's symbol. The Emperors of the Flavian family in Rome built it and it is a theatre where the seats are in a circle. So it's called the "Flavian Amphitheatre" as well as the Colosseum. Many games were held there in the olden days, such as: gladiators' fights, wild-beast displays, and events in which punished criminals as well as, Christians, were killed. It was a symbol of the greatness and power of Rome as a great city of the Empire, even in the eighth century CE. There are many aspects of the architectural design of the Colosseum, which reflected its function, as games arena in imperial Rome one of these aspects is the firmness, which consider the structure of the Colosseum. The firmness depends on both the requirements of a particular function and the technology available at the time. The requirement for the Colosseum was very large quantity of tiered seating. Neither by using wooden benches nor by piling up earth banks can endure the huge weight of the spectators, so Roman used vaults. Roman concrete vaults are very strong. Building up layers of facing material, which would hold cement in place while it set, made them. The center of the vault was then filled with porridge like cement, often mixed with rubble, a layer at a time. When the whole thing had set, the resulting structure was effectively one enormous piece. The Colosseum was used to hold different kinds of games, wild animals fighting each other or struggling with the gladiators. Condemned criminals and later on the Christians were put to death in this arena. These harsh and bloody entertainments were famous and seen as a way of clearing the society from harmful animals and dangerous criminals. They were held in festivals, exhibitions and sacrifices, very often. The scales of these games were large, on one day 5000 wild animals were exhibited, thousands attended and the games lasted for several days. Many famous people such as aristocrats, senators and rich families were amongst the audience. The most famous games were the once involved in killing wild beasts and evil criminals. The arena was a place for keeping order and honoring the king. It was also a place of practicing democracy. Gladiators, who fought bravely, were brought back to life. The crowd gave them another chance. Every one was treated the same, life and the emperor controlled death, he decided who should live and who should die. It was a good way of showing the emperors power and might. So the games were at that time more than a way of entertainment; they were a part of the tradition and cultural values and beliefs. All sorts of games had their share of fame during the period in which the Colosseum was actually used for that purpose. Some of the Romans enemies who refused to quell to the Roman order and thought that they may oppose their rule, were also seen as being excluded from society and deserved to die. There was no need for a particular event to happen in order to set the games. Killing beasts and criminals was always welcomed, a heroic and respectful action that the emperor could provide for this people. The enormous size of the amphitheatres indicates how popular these exhibitions were. The Colosseum was dedicated in AD 80 with 100 days of games. One day 3,000 men fought; on another 9,000 animals were killed. It. seated 50,000 people. Public killings of men and animals were a Roman rite, with overtones of religious sacrifice, legitimated by the myth that gladiatorial shows inspired the populace with 'a glory in wounds and a contempt of death'. In the morning, men are thrown to lions and bears. At mid-day they are thrown to the spectators themselves. No sooner has a man killed, than they shout for him to kill another, or to be killed. The final victor is kept for some other slaughter. In the end, every fighter dies. And all this goes on while the arena is half empty. All gladiators received cash for winning, crowns for bravery, and if they were fortunate the wooden cudgel as a symbol they need never fight in the arena again. The crowns were important. A painting from the amphitheatre at Pompeii shows preparations for a gladiatorial combat, the gladiators are arming themselves, while in the background two winged figures of victory hold out garlands for the prospective victor. And in graffiti at Pompeii, crude but touching line drawings trace the out come of gladiatorial fights, the contestants are identified by name, by the number of crowns which they have won .for example, Similarly, street advertisements for forthcoming shows put out by the producers and programmers which spectators bought, listed combatants by gladiatorial type and by previous record.The most spectacular gladiatorial shows were given by the Emperors themselves at Rome. For example, the Emperor Trajan, to celebrate his conquest of Dacia (roughly modern Romania), gave games in AD 108-9 lasting 123 days in which 9,138 gladiators fought and eleven thousand animals were slain The animal’s show was important type of entertainment that was put in the Roman arena. As for animals, their sheer variety symbolized the extent of Roman power and left vivid traces in Roman art. In 169 BC, sixtythree African lions and leopards, forty bears and several elephants were hunted down in a single show. New species were gradually introduced to Roman spectators (tigers, crocodiles, giraffes, lynxes, rhinoceros, ostriches, hippopotami) and killed for their pleasure. Not for Romans the tame viewing of caged animals in a zoo. Wild beasts were set to tear criminals to pieces as public lesson in pain and death. Sometimes, elaborate sets and theatrical backdrops were prepared in which, as a climax, a criminal was devoured limb by limb. The labor and organization required to capture so many animals and to deliver them alive to Rome must have been enormous. Even if wild animals were more plentiful then than now, single shows with one hundred, four hundred or six hundred lions, plus other animals, seem amazing .The Emperor Commodus, for example, killed himself five hippos, two elephants, a rhinoceros and a giraffe, in one show lasting two days. On another occasion he killed 100 lions and bears in a single morning show. . The slaughter of exotic animals in the emperor's presence, and by the emperor himself or by his palace guards, was a spectacular dramatization of the emperor's formidable power: immediate, bloody and symbolic. Omnibus by Thomas Weidemann talking about Roman and Greeks he said Games were played and popular even before the Colosseum was built in both Rome and Greece (which had a sophisticated culture several hundred years before the Romans), but were criticized by .philosophers and Christian thinkers as cruel and immoral His thought about The struggle with nature was The people were to be grateful to the Emperor for killing all dangerous animals, which destroyed their farms, in the games, in the arena, and the Emperor was a hero (Hercules was a suitable symbol for the Emperors as he had killed many monsters in his legendary adventures). It was built in the beginning to show the Roman victory over the Jews who had rebelled against them in Judea. For Life and death: Possible origins of the gladiatorial fights and lists of the different ways in which criminals were killed in the arena Punishment for any crime was shown openly in the arena to be seen by the rulers and the people. To forgive brave and successful fighters was also done together as a "collective and popular responsibility" of the rulers and the Therefore, this place could give the opportunity people gathered in the arena for active discussion between Emperor and people, as well as a way to separate the social position of people which showed them to be separate from criminals. The Colosseum is a very good illustration not just of the elaborate structure needed to house large-scale games but also of a place of unity and diversity, a potential flash point for all kinds of social tensions and shifting alliances between the different layers of society in attendance. In the year AD 80 the Colosseum opened with what must stand as quite the longest, most disgusting, organized mass binge in history. According to Suetonius, various sorts of large-scale slaughter, both of animals and of men were appreciatively watch by the emperor Titus and a packed audience for the next hundred days. During the reign of Titus, work on the Colosseum had been hurried on and he clearly could not wait for the shows to start. As it was the Colosseum was not completely finished for these celebrations, it is fourth and final story was to be added in the reign of the next emperor, the unspeakable Domitian last of the Flavians. Despite this, Titus had lavished money on it. It was a showpiece and must have possessed something today's Bare ruins make it hard to picture a sense of ostentations luxury. This was a vulgar age. Imperial Rome rejoiced in over- decoration and extravagance. This part of our case study has by necessity concentrated upon a very notorious and emotive aspect of Roman society. These are the different kinds of activities that took place in the Roman Colosseum. In short Modern and ancient approach we consider to be adequate for judging such activities. After studying the ancient Greek and Romans we can not help making judgments about them. There are things that we find very attractive and others that are repulsive. For many centuries, the Roman's enjoyed watching men kill each other and wild-beats in the arena. Considering all the best gladiatorial facilities given by the emperor, the context of the Roman games, the ancient world, we must try to understand what we condemn, as illustrated by Thomas Weidman who thinks that to be objective, we must not give way to our emotions. For others, like Pearson, those games were the most disgusting, or ganized "mass binge". For him, this was a vulgar age. But it does not answer fundamental questions about the psychology of spectacle. After getting into these two different points of view, I think, that people of modern reactions do not consider the historical context of those games. And their repulsion is basically based on their emotions. So, I tend to be closer to ancient reactions activities. The Romans developed lot of good and attractive things. If we considerer their beliefs and customs, we will easily adopt those games.