RE: Assignment on the Colosseum
October 11, 2012 at 4:43 pm
(This post was last modified: October 11, 2012 at 5:42 pm by Minimalist.)
(October 10, 2012 at 10:49 pm)jonb Wrote: When did it fall out of use? How many Popes exhibited gladiators?
There were repeated attempts to end the gladiator combat aspect of the games by various emperors and they continued into the 5th century. By that time the Romans lacked the resources to put on truly spectacular events and I have found some suggestion that the crowd simply lost interest in the scaled down versions.
Also, in 410 the Goths sacked Rome but the city had not been the capital of the Western Roman Empire since Diocletian moved it to Milan ( Mediolanum) in 286 so the city must have contracted in the interval.
