. upporting an entablature to each story. ) highest tiers of seats and the fourth story withThere was also an Odeum, in the Campus Mar- ! pilasters belong to the third century. Thistius, built by Domitian, and enlarged by Trajan : ! wonderful building covered nearly six acres ofit contained seats for about 11,000 persons.— ground, and furnished seats for 87,000 specta-VIII. Amrjhitheatres. The amphitheatres, like tors. In the reign of Macrinus it was struck bythe theatres, were originally made of wood for lightning, and so much damag
. upporting an entablature to each story. ) highest tiers of seats and the fourth story withThere was also an Odeum, in the Campus Mar- ! pilasters belong to the third century. Thistius, built by Domitian, and enlarged by Trajan : ! wonderful building covered nearly six acres ofit contained seats for about 11,000 persons.— ground, and furnished seats for 87,000 specta-VIII. Amrjhitheatres. The amphitheatres, like tors. In the reign of Macrinus it was struck bythe theatres, were originally made of wood for lightning, and so much damage was done to ittemporary purposes. They were used for the that the games were for some years celebratedshows of gladiators and wild beasts. The first in the Stadium. Its restoration was commencedwooden amphitheatre was built by C. Scri- by Elagabalus and completed by Alexanderbonius Curio (the celebrated partisan of Caesar), Severus. 3. Amph. Castrense, at the SE. ofand the next by Julius Caesar during his per- the Aurelian walls.—IX. Naurnachiae. These. petual dictatorship, 40. 1. Amph. Statilii were buildings of a kind similar to the amphi-Tauri, in the Campus Martius, was the first j theatres. They were used for representations stone amphitheatre in Eome, and was built by of sea-fights, and consisted of artificial lakes or Statilius Taurus, 80. This edifice was the ponds, with stone seats around them to accom- only one of the kind until the building of the modate the spectators. [Diet, of Ant. art. Flavian Amphitheatre. It did not satisfy Cnli- Kanmncliiae] 1. Naumachia Julii Caesaris, gula, who began an amphitheatre near the in the middle part of the Campus Martius, Septa; but the work was not continued by called the Lesser Codeta. This lake was Claudius. Nero, too, 57, erected a vast filled up in the time of Augustus, so that we amphitheatre of wood, but this was only a find in later writers mention only of two Nau- temporary building. The amphitheatre
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