13.At one point during the games the stage level of the amphitheatre was flooded and a mock naval battle was staged between two groups of condemned criminals.
14.One of the historical buildings covering parts of the amphitheatre is the oldest church in Chester St John the Baptist the city Cathedral until the reformation, in the mid-16th century.
15.Matters of strategic and civic importance remained the preserve of Vespasian, including masterminding the construction of the great Flavian amphitheatre, known today as the Colosseum.
16.The area in the centre of the Italian town of Lucca, known as the Piazza dell'Anfiteatro, is yet another impressive example of an amphitheatre becoming absorbed into the fabric of the city.
17.Another example is the imposing arena of Verona in northern Italy, with space for 30,000 spectators, which was built 60 years before the Arles amphitheatre and 40 years before Rome's famous Colosseum.
18.The first-class compartment was stifling; the vivid advertising cards of the railroad companies--The Pont du Gard at Arles, the Amphitheatre at Orange, winter sports at Chamonix--were fresher than the long motionless sea outside.
19.He lifted his hand and opened his eyelids; gazed blank, and with a straining effort, on the sky, and toward the amphitheatre of trees: one saw that all to him was void darkness.
20.Building work on the amphitheatre, which initially could hold an audience of over 50,000 people, was commenced around 72 AD using money which had been acquired by plundering Judaea as the Jewish Revolt was suppressed.