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The colosseum was largely abandoned by the public and became a popular den for bandits. [25] Severe damage was inflicted on the Colosseum by the great earthquake in 1349, causing the outer south side, lying on a less stable alluvial terrain, to collapse. Much of the tumbled stone was reused to build palaces, churches, hospitals and other ...
The film was produced by the BBC in co-production with the Discovery Channel, France 2 and NDR.. BBC History commissioned the online-game Gladiator: Dressed to Kill [1] and the animation Colosseum: Building the Arena of Death [2] to tie-in with the series.
loosely inspired by the 5th-century collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the legendary-fantastic elements from the history of Britain (dir. by Doug Lefler), with Colin Firth and Ben Kingsley: Agora: 2009 Spanish film (dir. by Alejandro Amenábar) with Rachel Weisz starring as Hypatia, a female philosopher and savant from Alexandria
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The film featured the largest outdoor set in the history of film at that time, a 92,000 m 2 (990,000 sq ft) replica of the Roman Forum. The film's name refers not to the final fall of the Western Roman Empire , which did in fact survive for centuries after the period depicted in the film, but rather to the onset of corruption and decadence ...
The Colossus of Rhodes straddling over the harbor, painting by Ferdinand Knab, 1886. The Colossus of Rhodes (Ancient Greek: ὁ Κολοσσὸς Ῥόδιος, romanized: ho Kolossòs Rhódios; Modern Greek: Κολοσσός της Ρόδου, romanized: Kolossós tis Ródou) [a] was a statue of the Greek sun god Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name, by ...
This episode predicts the fate of humanity's religious symbols and artefacts after the disappearance of humans – such as the Christ the Redeemer statue which stands over Rio de Janeiro, the Crystal Cathedral and the Memorial Coliseum in Southern California, the Colosseum, the Jubilee Church and St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, and the Shroud of ...
By the time the amphitheatre was completed, Titus's short reign had already endured a series of disasters: two months after he had succeeded Vespasian, Mount Vesuvius had erupted, destroying Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabiae, and Oplontis; a fire had burned in the city of Rome for three days and three nights causing substantial damage and destroying the Temple of Jupiter that had recently been ...