Stop 11 of 11
The Amphitheatre
The oldest stone amphitheatre in the Roman world.
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No older stone amphitheatre survives anywhere in the Roman world. This one was built around 70 BC by the same two magistrates who built the Odeon, Gaius Quinctius Valgus and Marcus Porcius, at their own expense. They didn't call it an amphitheatre, because the word didn't exist yet. Their inscription calls it the spectacula, the place for shows.
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