Roman Newspaper: Sports and Recreation Section

 

Recreation and Entertainment:

Drama and the Roman amphitheater and Roman Drama

Recreation - great links at the bottom of the site!

Chariot Races at the Circus Maximus and other Roman Hippodrome (race tracks)

Roman baths were places to relax as well as to get clean. Read more about the Roman baths.

The Colosseum in Rome

Gladiators:

Gladiator with "Thumbs Down" by Jean-Leon Gerome (1872)

Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer by Jean-Leon Gerome

 

Listening to stories, such as the Aeneid by Virgil (at the time of Caesar Augustus)

Music

Special Sections

Marriage in Ancient Rome

Marriage and Weddings, Roman Style

 

 

Aqueducts and Plumbing

 

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