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SUMMARY:AIA Lecture: Narrative Approaches to Counting Roman Amphitheaters
DESCRIPTION:By the Second Century AD\, well over 200 amphitheaters had
  been built within the territory of the Roman Empire. The most famous 
 of these\, the 50,000+ seat "Colosseum" in Rome\, is also among the mo
 st unusual by being the largest and most complex amphitheater around. 
 While the crowds watching gladiators and animals fight\, as well as cr
 iminals being executed\, were huge at Rome\, in Italy’s smaller citi
 es and in the Empire's provinces they could be very much smaller. This
  paper explores the diversity in the size and capacities of amphitheat
 ers by emphasizing the visualization of their spatial distribution. Th
 is in part means making maps\, but also making use of modern tools for
  representing and exploring large data sets. When the capacities of am
 phitheaters are totaled\, it is likely that there were over two millio
 n seats available for watching all the activities that occurred in the
 se uniquely Roman structures. That large number provides one avenue to
  a nuanced understanding of the role of amphitheaters in creating and 
 maintaining the territorial and political stability of imperial Rome.
LOCATION:ISAW Lecture Hall
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