The Colosseum by Mary Beard, Keith Hopkins

214 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history travel informative slow-paced
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Byron and Hitler were equally entranced by Rome's most famous monument, the Colosseum. Mid-Victorians admired the hundreds of varieties of flowers in its crannies and occasionally shuddered at its reputation for contagion, danger, and sexual tempt...

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