Chapter 1754： The killing fields of ancient Rome

The Colosseum in Rome, formerly known as the Flavi Amphitheater, also known as the Roman Arena, was built in 72 AD. It was a place where slave owners, nobles and free people watched beasts or slaves fighting in the ancient Roman Empire.

This huge Colosseum is located in the center of Rome, the capital of Italy, southeast of Piazza Venezia, near the ancient Roman market. It is one of the symbols of ancient Roman civilization and a city card of Rome.

From the outside, the Colosseum is a perfect circle, but from a high altitude, it is oval.

It covers an area of ​​about 20,000 square meters, the long axis is about 188 meters, the short axis is about 156 meters, the circumference is about 527 meters, and the wall is about 57 meters high. It is a huge ancient building that can accommodate nearly nine Million people.

Of course, the modern Colosseum has been shattered and its glory is no longer.

It has become a famous historical relic in the city of Rome. Every year, it attracts countless tourists from all over the world to visit and tour. With the glory and civilization of ancient Rome, it has completely lost its original arena functions.

Even so, standing in front of or walking in the ruins of the Colosseum, people seem to be able to hear the constant shouts, cheers and applause from the Colosseum, which is extremely lively.

But people hear more of the roars of wild fights between gladiators and beasts, between gladiators and gladiators, and the screams of despair and pain, near death.

Even the air here seems to be filled with a strong smell of blood, although it has gone through a long time of nearly two thousand years, it has never dispersed!

Coming out of the parking lot and walking to the ruins of the Colosseum, Ye Tian and the others stopped one after another, raised their heads, and began to admire this famous historical site that symbolized ancient Roman civilization!

The Roman Colosseum that appeared in front of them was no longer glorious and dilapidated. Only half of the skeleton remained, and the rest had collapsed into ruins or destroyed by various natural disasters.

The remaining half of the skeleton is also scarred and mottled everywhere. It is said to be a famous historical relic, but in fact it is not much different from the ruins, it is just the ruins enclosed for a fee.

But from the remaining ruins, people can still see the majestic and majestic spirit that the Colosseum once had, as well as the beauty and prosperity of the ancient Roman Empire.

"Wow! This is so spectacular, it's hard to imagine. How did people build such a huge Colosseum in ancient Rome two thousand years ago? It's incredible!"

"Standing here, I seem to be able to hear the sound of the gladiators fighting frantically. In the next second, the gladiators who are leading the rebellion by Sparta will seem to rush out of the Colosseum!"

Betty and Anderson said with emotion that everyone was completely shocked by the famous historical relic in front of them, and they looked at the ruins of the Colosseum in front of them dumbfounded.

Ye Tian turned to look at them, then smiled and said:

"How was the Colosseum built? This is a huge Colosseum built by the Roman emperor forcing 80,000 Arab and Jewish prisoners of war over eight years. It was made of the lives and flesh and blood of prisoners of war.

This is not over yet. When the Colosseum was completed in 80 AD, the Romans held a one-hundred-day celebration. What they called the celebration was a series of extremely crazy **** battles.

Ancient Roman rulers drove 5,000 beasts and 3,000 slaves, prisoners of war, and criminals into the Colosseum to fight. This kind of crazy fight between people and beasts lasted for 100 days.

The celebration ceremony did not end until the 5,000 beasts and 3,000 gladiators were killed and wounded and all died together. It can be said that every handful of soil here is soaked with blood"

"I'm going! This is too cruel. A hundred days of crazy fights, that kind of scene is unimaginable, it must be **** to the extreme!"

Anderson exclaimed directly, with an exaggerated expression.

The same goes for everyone else, and the thought of the tragic scene of thousands of beasts and thousands of gladiators smashing together and fighting wildly, just to live an extra second, suddenly feels shuddering.

"So, although the ancient Roman Empire was great and desirable, it was not so perfect. Especially for the slaves and prisoners of war at that time, it was the most terrifying hell.

Let’s not talk about that, let’s buy a ticket to visit the Colosseum. When we enter the Colosseum, I will be able to see another different scenery. I’m looking forward to it."

Ye Tian said with a smile, and then led Betty to the entrance of the Colosseum.

Anderson and the others immediately followed, everyone was excited and full of expectations.

It is now in the afternoon, and there are not many tourists waiting in line to enter the Colosseum. There are only thirty or fifty tourists from all over the world.

In addition, some tourists were afraid to avoid Ye Tian for safety reasons. When they saw them coming, these tourists immediately changed their plans and did not plan to enter the Colosseum.

Therefore, Ye Tian and the others didn't wait long before they entered the Colosseum.

As Ye Tian said, when they entered the interior of the Colosseum, what appeared in front of them was another more spectacular scene.

Especially when they stood on the stone steps in front of the arena and looked at the audience, each of them was completely shocked by what they saw before them.

This imposing colosseum is oval, like two butt-connected semicircular stages, covering a huge area, with a large gladiatorial arena in the middle, which is the stage where gladiators and beasts fight.

The current gladiatorial platform is full of ravines. The cellars under the gladiatorial platform used to hold the gladiators and beasts are all exposed. The floor that originally covered it has long been decayed and disappeared.

Around the gladiator arena stands with up to four floors.

According to the different identities of the audience, the Colosseum stand is divided into three zones, which can accommodate more than 90,000 spectators, and its size is comparable to the largest stadium in the world today.

Along the sixty-storey grandstand up to the top of the grandstand, there is a towering exterior wall, 57 meters high, equivalent to the height of a nineteen-story building. Although it is dilapidated, it is still shocking.

On the lower three floors of the stands, each floor has 80 masonry arches, arranged in an orderly manner. The ancient arches look like dense honeycombs, and the scene is spectacular.

And the pillars in front of these arches are very distinctive, from bottom to top, they are arranged in the standard order of Doric, Ionic and Corinthian, which is the inheritance and tribute to ancient Greek civilization.

The fourth floor of the Colosseum is decorated with a large number of small windows and pilasters. Due to the age and various natural disasters, the fourth floor of the grandstand is the most damaged, and there are few left.

Standing inside the entrance of the Colosseum, looking at the magnificent ancient architectural ruins in front of them, Ye Tian and each of them were shocked and excited about it.

At this time, in their minds, such an exciting scene appeared.

It was a scene where Spartacus struggled with a lion or a tiger, a life-and-death contest!

Spartacus wearing an iron helmet and holding a shield holding a sword in his right hand, standing in the center of the arena, his eyes fixed on the lion or tiger that is rushing towards him!

At the moment when the lion or the tiger leaped into the air, Spartacus attacked like lightning, swinging the sword in his hand and stabbing directly at the beast.

The next moment, the beast with its teeth and claws did not even yell, and fell to the ground and died in the center of the arena.

The surging blood quickly dyed the entire arena and ignited everyone's passion!

Seeing this **** scene, the nearly 100,000 spectators in the Colosseum all screamed frantically, applause, cheers, and stomping, resounding across the sky!

The noise at the scene was like a volcanic eruption, and thousands of arms in the stands were waving frantically, like the most raging and terrifying waves in the raging ocean.

And Spartacus, who had just killed the beast, had his chest undulating sharply, and large beads of sweat rolled down his pale cheeks, and the joy of victory burned in his sparkling eyes.

However, this joy is fleeting.

Instead, there are endless pain and sorrow, as well as unforgettable hatred, and the unyielding fighting spirit that has never been extinguished, and is growing stronger!

Two thousand years have passed in just one click.

The historical figures have long ceased and turned into a slick of loess; those shining years have long been sealed in the history books, only for future generations to remember and pay tribute.

However, the city wall with the vicissitudes of the years still stands tall, telling people an epic story.