Colosseum
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- The increasing extravagance of popular entertainment in Ancient Rome was exemplified by the inauguration of the Colloseum under the emperor Titus. Dio Cassius said that 9,000 wild animals were killed in the one hundred days of celebration which inaugurated the amphitheatre opening. This is well illustrated in Pollice Verso, a 1872 painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme.
The largest stadium in the Roman empire, located near the center of Rome.
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