Maeniana: horizontal sections (cross section of seating in the Colosseum)

Maeniana: horizontal sections (cross section of seating in the Colosseum)

Cavea, Oudna, Tunisia, Amphitheater.

(Podium, ima cavea, media cavea, summa cavea and upper gallery)

Cross section of the ColosseumPodium

Ima cavea

Media cavea

Summa cavea

Upper gallery

Cavea: seating area (

Seating legislation

194 BCE ludi Romani67 Lex Roscia

[Special seating rights in the Forum under the Republice.g. 184 BCE Maenii granted places on the

Basilica Porcia]

Augustan legislation: (Mahoney 44)26 BCE: 1st legislationc.20 BCE: Lex Julia Theatralis

Reconstruction of the Basilica Julia showing balconies

Emperor Vestals

Senators

Soldiers with corona civica

Equestrians (subdivided)

Servi publici

Soldiers + Veterans (auxiliaries? Praetorians?)

Boys and their pedagogi

Plebs (Toga) (Subdivided?)Plebs (Pullati)

Women

Slaves

Peregrini? Disgraced senators + equestrians? Servi privati?

Colosseum showing remnants of the marble on the senator’s seats

Inscription on block of seats from family that restored them (FABIUS ISSTEIUS)

Arrows show the entrances and exits for those who appeared on the floor of the arena; x’s mark where the authorities entered

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Porta triumphalis

Porta libitensis

Entranceway to the Colosseum showing numbers

System of entrances in the Colosseum

J-L Gérome; Christian Martyrs’ Last Prayer (c. 1870): supposedly set in the Circus Maximus, the seating looks more like that of the Colosseum

The location of the Vestal Virgins (this is wrong about the location, but who can resist their enthusiasm…)

Brass sestertius of Titus (80 BCE) showing the Colosseum with spectators and emperor’s box

Reconstruction of the Circus Maximus

Pulvinar

Pulvinar on marble relief showing emperor with mappa at the Circus Maximus

(Roman, 3rd century CE)

Pulvinar on marble relief showing emperor with mappa

(Roman, 3rd century CE)