 View of Colosseo from the site The Ludus Magnus or The Great Gladiatorial Training School is the largest of the gladiatorial arenas in Rome which was built by the emperor Domitian (81-96 AD) in the valley between the Esquilino and the Celio, an area already occupied by Republican and Augustinian structures. The still visible ruins of the monument belong to a second building stage attributed to the emperor Trajan (98-117), where the Ludus plane was raised by about 1½ m. For the 2003 film, see Blueprint (movie). ...
Rocky landscape with ruins, by Nicolaes Berchem, ca. ...
Pollice Verso, an 1872 painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme, is a well known history painters researched conception of a gladiatorial combat. ...
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City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC (mythical), early 1st millennium BC (archaeological) Region Latium Area - City Proper 1285 km² Population - City (2004) - Metropolitan - Density (city proper) 2,553,873 almost 4,300,000 1. ...
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The remains of the complex were discovered in 1937, but only 20 years later excavations were terminated. The name and construction period of Ludus Magnus are known, thanks to antique sources. There is also its blueprint that was found among some fragments of the marble city plan (Forma Urbis) drawn in the Severian age (early third century AD). However, there were great doubts about where it was located in the general topography of ancient Rome, so that it can now be related to a building in Piazza Iside, still visible. Modern blueprint of the French galleon La Belle. ...
Doctoral student David Koller identified fragments as depicting a section of the Circus Maximus Individual rooms and staircases can be seen 3D models of the fragments were made Severan Marble Plan, or Forma Urbis Romae is a massive marble map of third-century Rome. ...
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City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC (mythical), early 1st millennium BC (archaeological) Region Latium Area - City Proper 1285 km² Population - City (2004) - Metropolitan - Density (city proper) 2,553,873 almost 4,300,000 1. ...
The Ludus Magnus was located in this area as it was built for the performances to be held at the Flavian Amphitheatre (the Colosseum). To facilitate connections between these two buildings, an underground gallery linked the two buildings. The path, with an entrance 2.17 m wide, began underneath the amphitheatre and reached the Ludus at its southwestern corner. The Colosseum in Rome, Italy: an exterior view of the best-preserved section. ...
The name amphitheatre (alternatively amphitheater) is given to a public building of the Classical period (being particularly associated with ancient Rome) which was used for spectator sports, games and displays. ...
At the center of the Ludus Magnus, built on two levels, there was an ellipsoidal arena in which the gladiators practiced. It was circumscribed by the steps of a small cavea, probably reserved for a limited number of spectators. The cavea had a four-sided portico (of about 100m per side) with travertine columns. It led to a number of outside rooms, to be used by the gladiators and as services for the performances. Only a few ruins in Travertine remain of the colonnade which was raised in the place where the columns were probably located originally. A black circle circumscribed by a red square In geometry, a circumscribed planar shape or solid is one that encloses and fits snugly around another geometric shape or solid. ...
In Roman times the cavea were the subterranean cells in which wild animals were confined before the combats in the Roman arena or amphitheatre. ...
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Travertine A carving in travertine The rock travertine is a natural chemical precipitate of carbonate minerals; typically aragonite, but often recrystallized to or primary calcite; which is deposited from the water of mineral springs (especially hot springs) or streams saturated with calcium carbonate. ...
Enormous colonnade of the Kazan Cathedral in St Petersburg. ...
In the northwest corner of the portico, one of the four small, triangular fountains has been restored. It lies in the spaces between the curved wall of the cavea and the colonnade. A cement block remained between two brick walls, converging at an acute angle. Categories: Architectural elements | Stub ...
A large part of the brickwork structures were originally covered by marble slabs that were later removed. Like a brick house. ...
The entrances to the Ludus Magnus were built on the main axes. The one at via Labicana, at the center of the building’s northern side, was probably reserved for important people, since a decorated place of honour was found on the cavea. Via Labicana, an ancient highroad of Italy, leading east southeast from Rome. ...
The life of Ludus Magnus ended, as did that of the Flavian amphitheatre, with the end of gladiator performances. Before the middle of the sixth century, the area was no longer cared for and numerous churches were built, as the population went on decreasing more and more.
See also
The name amphitheatre (alternatively amphitheater) is given to a public building of the Classical period (being particularly associated with ancient Rome) which was used for spectator sports, games and displays. ...
The Circus Maximus is a park today. ...
The Colosseum in Rome, Italy: an exterior view of the best-preserved section. ...
Doctoral student David Koller identified fragments as depicting a section of the Circus Maximus Individual rooms and staircases can be seen 3D models of the fragments were made Severan Marble Plan, or Forma Urbis Romae is a massive marble map of third-century Rome. ...
Reference - Comune di Roma http://www2.comune.roma.it/sovraintendenza/english/albero/139/126/144/148/373/scheda.asp
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