Assignment on the Colosseum

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Thanks everyone for your help. After talking a bit about the things you guys suggested I made it to the max word count! It also really helped to quote the ancients as much as possible, as their words added quite a bit to the word count!

On a side note, I'd have to say my favourite thing about doing this essay was some of the stuff I came across. My favourite passage was from one of the books I used and it reads:

[as a consequence of executions at the Colosseum] Christians created a new genre of literature, known as "Martyr Acts" [or the Acts of the Martyrs], which celebrated the capture and trial (often before a capricious pagan judge) of a steadfast Christian who was willing to suffer terrible tortures and death rather than give up his or her faith. Hugely embellished no doubt, they acted as a kind of sacred pornography of cruelty, tying the Christian message to gruesome and gory death at the hands of the Roman authorities

I wouldn't want to know what he's been watching!