Buried cities . IN THE STREET OF TOMBS. On the tomb of Naevoleia Tyche was a carving of a ship glidinginto port, the sailors furling the sails. Within this tomb is achamber where funeral urns stand, containing the ashes of Tycheand her husband, and of the slaves they had freed. Pompeiansalways burned the bodies of the THE AMPHITHEATER. Like other Roman towns, Pompeii had an amphitheater. Heretwenty thousand people could, come and watch the ^gladiatorsfight in pairs till one was killed. Then the dead body wasdragged off, and another pair appeared and fought. Sometimesthe gladiators were
Buried cities . IN THE STREET OF TOMBS. On the tomb of Naevoleia Tyche was a carving of a ship glidinginto port, the sailors furling the sails. Within this tomb is achamber where funeral urns stand, containing the ashes of Tycheand her husband, and of the slaves they had freed. Pompeiansalways burned the bodies of the THE AMPHITHEATER. Like other Roman towns, Pompeii had an amphitheater. Heretwenty thousand people could, come and watch the ^gladiatorsfight in pairs till one was killed. Then the dead body wasdragged off, and another pair appeared and fought. Sometimesthe gladiators were prisoners captured in war, like the famousSpartacus; sometimes they were slaves; sometimes criminals con-demned to death. Sometimes a man was pitted against a wildbeast; sometimes two wild beasts fought each other. The amphi-theater had no roof. Vesuvius, with its column of smoke, was inplain view from the seats. There was a great awning to protectthe spectators. The lower seats were for officials and distin-guished people; for the middle rows there was an admission fee;all the upper seats were free. RUINS OF THE GREAT STABIAN BATHS. A few large houses had baths of their own, but most peoplewent every day to a great public bath which was a very gayplace. This open court which you see, was for games.
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