Due to the deepest interest in the ancient Rome and its beauties, the above mentioned topic has been chosen. Two periods in the Colliseum‘s existence are going to be examined: 1. The time of the Colliseum‘s prosperity 2. The Colliseum‘s collapse and its possible cause. The problem of barbarian collaboration in devastating Rome and its deities might have been discussed, besides the more detailed and scrutinized survey of the Colliseum‘s history might have been added.
Rome‘s career spanned a millenium. In that time Rome assembled the greatest empire the world had seen. No doubt that the Colliseum was the Rome itself. Began by Vesparian, completed by his sons Titus and Domitian, and officially opened in 80 A.D., Colliseum standed for Rome‘s glory and prosperity. It was built from the best marble and precious stones to stand for ages desirable and unattainable. It was the pride of Rome. In that hounorable time it has been said that the life of Rome lasts while the Colliseum stands untarnished. As soon as the hand of a pagan disgraces it, the misfortunes will descend on Rome immediately and never leave it…The Colliseum was the witness of erecting the noble Rome: more than sixty marble temples, theatres, villas, palaces, statues, colonnades, gardens, and triumphal arches date from that period. Rome‘s achievements in poetry, history, jurisprudence and engineering, were indisputable.…
