The Roman Amphitheatre

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The Roman Amphitheatre is written by Katherine E. Welch and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521809444 (ISBN 10) and 9780521809443 (ISBN 13).

This is the first book to analyze the evolution of the Roman amphitheatre as an architectural form. Katherine Welch addresses the critical period in the history of this building type: its origins and dissemination under the Republic, from the third to first centuries BC; its monumentalization as an architectural form under Augustus; and its canonization as a building type with the Colosseum (AD 80). The study then shifts focus to the reception of the amphitheatre in the Greek East, a part of the Empire deeply fractured about the new realities of Roman rule.