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Rome: Forma Urbis Roma, plan of Ludus Magnus (gladiator school)
Rome: Forma Urbis Roma, plan of gladiator school (Vatican Mus.)
At left is a fragment from the ancient marble map of Rome called Forma Urbis Roma, made in about.AD 200, showing part of a plan of the Ludus Magnus or gladiator school. Today the Forma Urbis Roma survives only in fragments.
At
right is a Renaissance copy of the same, made while the map section was
still intact, from Vatican Codex 3439, fol.135,Table 17.
The
Ludus Magnus was a school for gladiators located right beside the
Colosseum, and connected with it by underground passage. It had a small
practice arena and dormitories, of which some excavated parts are
visible.
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