A Great View Among Sightseers

I had no clear recollection of the flick "Gladiator" that whenever I think of it, there was nothing that would come to mind except for the convincing Aussie Russell Crowe. But when I set off to the Colosseum situated in Rome, I remembered hurriedly the panting wild animals, the hysterical spectators, the mighty emperors, and the extensive and spacious arena in the movie.

My tour to the Colosseum brought me back to AD 80 when this huge elliptical amphitheater was completed. Though it was largely affected by a destructive earthquake, the Colosseum remains to be an magnificent view among tourists and a national heritage among the locals.

The huge Colosseum was first called the Flavian Amphitheater, capable of accommodating as much as 55,000 viewers. The spectators, then, gathered around an elliptical arena where they were startled by games and battles, which were often concluded by wretched deaths of gladiators and wild animals. The canopy also called the velarium was also impressive especially because it was purposely vast to protect the people from the shining sunlight.

I have never imagined that once in my life, I would visit a area that was once a bare watcher of the human civilization and development. Though the Colosseum has fairly fallen apart, it still brings back the modern people to an era where to perish is mighty and to kill is even mightier.