ANCIENT AND MODERN STADIUMS
Big as it i B) the new football ground at Rusholme would make a poor show in comparison with some of the arenas constructed by the Romans, says the "Manchester Guardian." The'largest of these buildings—the Circus Maximus—is said to have held 385,000 people. Judging from its remains, the Circus maximus, composed as it was of fine marble and quarried stone, must have oast, according to modern computation, at least half a million sterling. Another mighty sports arena was the Flavian Amphitheatre, better known as the Colosseum, completed A.D. 80. The length of this amphitheatre was 620 feet, .the breadth 513 feet, and the whole structure, consisting of three superimposed storeys, rose to a height of 160 feet. The Colosseum is still a wonderful structure, although two-thirds of the original building have disappeared.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 108, 3 November 1923, Page 15
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136ANCIENT AND MODERN STADIUMS Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 108, 3 November 1923, Page 15
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