Buried cities . 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 sea
Buried cities . 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
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