Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867)
Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 91
contained 150,000 people. Pliny makes it only3 stadia long, and 1 wide, containing 260,000. Each computa-tion is, however, supposed to have reference to different periods,The remains of a circus outside the walls of Rome have affordedmeans of studying the general arrangements of this class of… … CIRCUS OF KOMTJLrS. and its breadth 260 feet. It is calculated that it could have con-tained 20,000 spectators. The next circus, in point of antiquity, tothe Circus Maximus was that of Flaminius, built by the consul ofthat name, u.c. 531, but this has entirely disappeared. The othercirci at Rome…
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