During these months I reviewed a lot of arenas for your little gladiators. I examined simple and complex realisations, gorgeous and rough models. Now I want to show you these draws from the beautiful book of Peter Connolly “Ancient Rome”, but you can find it even in other books, like “Ancient Cities”. Here the Amazon link to buy it or to know more about it. If you want to be the architect and the builder of an arena project you can take here some ideas about what is an arena. Something like this…

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This is the complexity of the Colosseum, if you want to know what is behind it. Huge, isn’t? And full of ways and corridors for peoples, attendants, artists and beasts. Under here there is the reconstruction of a decorated access to the terraces, that you can see smaller in the upper cross section image.

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Below a fight scene in the arena where you can see the decorated inner walls and the musical accompaniment performed by a water organ, panpipes and trumpets. Together with a view of the terraces from the ground.

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To have a look to a smaller arena, I put here a drawing of Ludus Magnus. It was an arena near the Colosseum, with an underground passage to it. It was a training camp and a school, with the possibility to set spectacles for a selected public. This have got a few rows of seats, in order to see fighters very well and not as points on sand, so you can appreciate the style of the fight. Its dimension are small for a large amount of people but it is big enough for its scopes. The structure is a little peculiar because of the fact that the arena is inside another building, a rectangular one. But if you are thinking about arenas smaller than Colosseum, or rather arenas for minor cities, the dimensions are these. You can just add another terraces ring and some underground accesses.

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I surf the web to find some suggestion to built my arena, so I show here lots of arenas. Next posts some other arenas.

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