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🔴 Rampant slaughter! Sexy armour! Tiger maulings! We bust the gladiator myths
“One example of an inaccuracy that has simply become established “history” is the very word Colosseum. In ancient Rome, it referred not to the stadium but to the enormous statue of Nero next to it. The Romans called the statue the Colossus and the stadium the Amphitheatrum Flavium. When the statue was destroyed, explains Mariotti, the nickname for the statue moved to the amphitheatre. This has now become a cultural norm, he adds, and going with it simply saves time.”
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