Презентация, доклад по английскому языку на тему Coliseum (7 класс)

of Ancient Rome, the most famous and one of the most ambitious buildings of the Ancient World that have survived to our time. It is located in Rome, in a hollow between the Esquiline, Palatine and Celiev hills. The construction of the largest amphitheater of the entire ancient world, with a capacity of over 50 thousand people, was carried out for eight years, as a collective construction of the emperors of the Flavian dynasty. It began to be built in 72 BC. e. under the emperor Vespasian, and in 80 AD e. the amphitheater was consecrated by Emperor Titus. The amphitheater is located on the spot where there was a pond belonging to the Golden House of Nero.

by the emperor Vespasian after his victories in Judea. This is reported by Suetonius: He also undertook new constructions: ... an amphitheater in the middle of the city, conceived, as he learned, by Augustus. It is believed that the amphitheater was built at the expense of proceeds from the sale of military production. An estimated 100,000 prisoners were brought to Rome as slaves after the war in Judea. Slaves were used for hard work, such as work in quarriesin Tivoli, where travertine was mined, for lifting and transporting heavy stones 20 miles from Tivoli to Rome. Teams of professional builders, engineers, artists and decorators performed a number of tasks necessary for the construction of the Coliseum.

more than 48 m there is a two-stage basement. The facade is divided into four tiers, the lower three tiers are open arcades. The architectural technique, using open arcades in the lower tiers of the outer walls, was borrowed from the Marcellus Theater. The arches of the lower floor have a height of slightly more than 7 m. Their supports have a width of 2.4 m and a depth of 2.7 m. The distance between the supports is 4.2 m. Columns of the Doric order are built in front of them, an entablature 2.35 m high is supported on them, not having the characteristic features of a Doric order.

above the entablature of the first tier. The dimensions of the arcade of the second floor differed from the first only in the height of the columns, which was only 6.45 m. The entablature of 2.1 m in height, not fully corresponding to the ionic style, rests on the half-columns of the ionic order. Above it was an attic 1.95 m high, which served as a support for the columns of the third floor. The height of the arches of the third arcade, made in the Corinthian style, is 6.4 m. There was a statue in each arch of the second and third tiers. Above the third arcade, the attic 2.1 m high has small windows above every second arch. The upper part of the wall is solid, decorated with Corinthian pilasters located above the semi-columns of the lower tiers. A window is made between every second pair of pilasters.

often acts as a symbol of Rome.
Corlise is one of the most ancient monuments of archeology.