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The Colosseum
By Hopkins, Keith & Beard, Mary Ritter
- ISBN
- 978-0-67401-895-2
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on August 15, 2005
This slim but extremely well-researched volume attempts to answer two questions--"How should we respond to the bloody images that have come to define the Colosseum in modern culture?" and "Why is it so famous?" A professor of ancient history at the University of Cambridge at the time of his death, Hopkins (A World Full of Gods ) and Beard, editor of Harvard's "Wonders of the World" series, of which this title is part...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
