12-21-2008, 07:59 AM
Quote:It just wasn't a very good venue for gladiators.That depends; accounts of the Circus Maximus fights are often about armies and large groups of animals fighting against each other, whereas the Colosseum was the scene of a different type of spectacle. We read more often about individual fights and learn the names of the gladiators.
Besides, the Colosseum served for executions (the mythological tableaux vivants that had until then been displayed on the slopes of the Vatican). The Colosseum was built for a different type of show: the execution of religious criminals and individual fights.
